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The process for the death in a case of police brutality in which Javier Ordóñez died will continue in the Attorney General’s Office.
Sources of the Military Criminal Justice indicated that after evaluating the facts it was concluded that the case did not correspond to an act of the service and therefore should be investigated by the ordinary jurisdiction.
This decision prevents the military criminal jurisdiction from filing a collision of powers, which would delay the case as it would have to be resolved by the Disciplinary Chamber of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, which in the best of cases would take several months.
(Also read: UN Human Rights verifies cases of excessive police in Bogotá in protests)
For these events, the two uniformed men who beat and subjected Ordóñez with several electric shocks are being disciplinary investigated for police abuse and homicide.
In addition, five policemen were also suspended to investigate whether they acted with omission in the middle of the aggression of which the right student was a victim.
(It may interest you: First decisions against uniformed men due to the death of Javier Ordóñez)
And on the criminal side, The Prosecutor’s Office is making progress in collecting evidence and reviewing the victim’s autopsy to make the first decisions in the process.
It is known that photos, videos, statements from people close to the scene and from the police themselves have been collected.
(Also: The reforms to the Police that they ask for in the streets: are they necessary?)
In the midst of the demonstrations on September 9 and 10 in Bogotá and other cities, protesting the police abuse and the murder of Ordóñez, 13 people died, some from gunshots, and more than 300 civilians were injured.
These acts of violence are also disciplinary investigation by the Attorney General’s Office, which requested assume, by preferential power, the investigation that the General Inspection of the Police had been carrying out.
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