Police extortions led to Friday’s riots in El Codito, north of Bogotá

After the riots that occurred on Friday in the El Codito neighborhood, in the town of Usaquén in the northeast of Bogotá, It would be behind a series of irregular events such as charges and extortions by some police officers to merchants and informal transporters in that area of ​​Bogotá, according to a television note they aired in the Saturday edition of Noticias Uno.

Journalists from that newscast were in the sector collecting testimonies from residents of the area, after On Friday night, riots broke out after clashes between the Police and outraged citizens after two young people from the sector were wounded by firearms in a police operation against illegal transport in the area. one of them a minor who remains confined in the Simón Bolívar hospital with a reserved prognosis.

That day The authorities reported that the investigation of the events was in charge of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, since the wounded had attacked a uniformed woman and tried to run over four other police officers during the operation. against illegal transportation in the area, which caused them to be shot.

However, with the testimonies that Noticias Uno collected, the facts would not be as the authorities told them. “Yesterday’s situation is for money, the Police are very corrupt. The only ones who are receiving vaccines and money from illegal transport are those from CAI Codito “, assured the newscast, with his protected identity, a resident of the area.

In the news they reported that e14 homicides have occurred in this sector so far this year, and that disputes between illegal transporters would be the cause of these crimes, as well as the dominance of micro-trafficking which has been a permanent problem in that high area of ​​Usaquén.

“On Thursday they murdered two people from the trucks that work on the hill in the Santa Cecilia neighborhood”added the resident.

Even in one of the testimonies from the community they assured that some uniformed men were related to criminals in the area.

“There is a person who is involved with the Clan del Golfo, and now he has control of the territory. Well, it is not a secret that the Police are obviously friends with him “, assured another inhabitant of the community.

The newscast also interviewed merchants who would be paying the police for ‘vaccines’. “At all times asking for money, they have already vaccinated us as 300,000 pesos in this pandemic”said one of those affected to the television newscast.

According to the same community, After the events of Friday, a non-aggression pact was made between the Police and illegal transporters, so that the vehicles of these people continued to circulate and provide this service irregularly in the area. While the CAI remained guarded by the uniformed to avoid further disturbances.

In Noticias Uno also reported that they received no response from the Police, or the Bogotá Security Secretariat about these complaints. what the citizens did about what is happening in that sector of the north of the Colombian capital.

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