New details on the murder of Juliana Giraldo in Cauca

This Tuesday, October 6, El Tiempo revealed that the Attorney General’s Office has a ballistics report that ensures that the first of several shots that killed Juliana Giraldo, on September 24, on a road in Miranda, Cauca, perpetrated by a military man, went in a straight line, contradicting the first official versions.

This result contradicts the preliminary version delivered by the soldier and the Army, according to which the uniformed man fired pointing his weapon at the tire of the vehicle., which caused the bullet to rebound and hit Juliana, killing her in that instant.

According to the newspaper, The soldier who shot at the car in which the young woman was traveling, accompanied by her husband and two other people, will be charged with murder this week. What type of homicide can be attributed to the uniformed man is still being analyzed. The crime, according to the newspaper, would have an aggravating factor, since the accusing body announced that the case will have a gender differential focus.

The 19-year-old soldier who shot the woman is being held at the military base in Miranda, Cauca, until his legal situation is resolved. It was also known that the young man was about to finish his military service and that he had at least 20 days of training.

The Prosecutor’s Office is also investigating why, if the soldiers say they had installed a roadblock, there was no sign indicating their presence to drivers.

This data coincides with the version provided by Juliana Giraldo’s husband, Francisco Larrañaga, who assures that the uniformed men appeared on one side of the road, but that no sign was ever seen indicating that this was a checkpoint.

It also transpired that the victim had problems at the checkpoints, as the documents that identified her as Carlos Julio had not yet changed.

Juliana’s death transcended thanks to a video that quickly went viral on social networks. There her husband, bathed in tears, accused a young military man of having killed his wife when they were traveling by road.

One of the witnesses to Juliana’s death says that there was an exchange of words with the military, as they insisted on stopping the vehicle and the occupants asked who they were and why they were being detained.

“When the man arrives and takes out the rifle from the side, and ‘pa pa pa’, he hits like three shots there, we get scared ‘uh like that’ and we crouch down, when the man started to shoot the car and the tires ”Said the witness who was in the vehicle that was attacked by the military.

According to the victims, they were going to Corinto, Cauca, to buy some spare parts when the encounter with the military happened.

This death caused outrage in Colombia, because The crime occurred one day after President Iván Duque and Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo learned of a ruling from the Constitutional Court that forced them to apologize for the brutality with which some members of the National Police have acted.