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A group of four human rights prosecutors, accompanied by three dozen forensic experts, carry out the investigations to clarify the death of 10 people in Bogotá and Soacha during the violent protests of last week and that they registered bullet wounds on their bodies.
The team, which met this weekend with the leadership of the Prosecutor’s Office, has already carried out the judicial inspection of the places where these people fell dead, collected vanilla beans, accessed the videos of the security cameras and did neighborhood work conducting interviews with possible witnesses to the events recorded on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
Legal Medicine is expected to deliver today the opinions of the victims, with which it could be possible to have more clarity on the type of ammunition and data on how they entered the body. This, the researchers said, is important for hypothesizing the trajectories of the shots and the distance of the shots.
The attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, not only prioritized the investigation into the death of Javier Ordóñez, registered early Wednesday morning after a violent attack by two members of the Public Force, but also the investigations into the acts that occurred since then in the city.
In the first case, investigators said, this week the first decisions on the merits will be known, which would translate into indictment hearings.
In the second, the investigations advance, although without a definitive hypothesis. Each case is being examined individually and it is still not possible to indicate that the bullets that caused the deaths of the citizens were fired by soldiers.
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During the meeting this weekend with the Deputy Attorney General, Martha Mancera, and the Director of Citizen Security, Carmen Torres, the methodological plan for the investigation was defined. The ballistics laboratory of Dijín will be key in this, which has a software called Sucoba or Unique Ballistic Comparison System, which allows to analyze the vanillas of the fired bullets and establish whether the weapon used has already been detected in other judicial investigations.
After the disorders, it was ordered that the weapons used by policemen in four localities, including Suba and Kennedy, be delivered to the gunsmiths, where they remain in custody. Of these, 37 have already been delivered to the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office and new requirements are awaited. The vanilla comparison will start on them.
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In the videos, not only is the action of the uniformed men observed, but there are already armed civilians who are being investigated.
As part of the investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office will request access to police communications during the day of protests to examine the dialogues that the uniformed men had.
On the side of the Police Inspection, the census of weapons and ammunition that each uniformed man has endowment advances.
So far, 41 disciplinary investigations have been opened in which 65 police officers appear. There are also 215 investigations for attacks against the Public Force. The director in charge of the Police, General Gustavo Moreno, said that the uniformed men who acted against the regulations and protocols and put citizens at risk “will also have to respond.”
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The attorney general, Fernando Carrillo, told this newspaper that, in addition to using the preferential power to assume the disciplinary investigation for the death of Javier Ordóñez, he also notified the Police that the Public Ministry will assume the investigation for the excessive use of the force during operations in the city. In fact, a team has already been appointed to begin collecting information this week.
This week marks the three business days that the Attorney General’s Office gave the Police to deliver the information that will allow the identification and individualization of “each official who reported the expense of ammunition, the service or place where they provided their services at the time they made use of weapons and ammunition, the quantity of them or other elements used, the identification of the weapon that fired it and the corresponding justification or explanation reported by each public servant who made use of them. “
The Attorney General’s Office also requested copies “of the instructions, directives or institutional orders issued by the Police Directorate and the different Commands assigned to the places where the events occurred, on the behavior that the members of the Police should have to care for protests and violent events ”.
Carrillo pointed out that this is not the time to weaken the Police, but rather to make decisions to advance reforms.
In the disorders, said the Police, 308 uniformed men and 258 civilians were injured. In total 81 police units and 127 vehicles were affected nationwide.
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