Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman’s Office pronounce on the death of 8 young people at a Soacha Police station

On the case of the young people who died in a fire inside a Soacha police station, the Attorney General’s Office He maintained that he met this Wednesday with the delegate for Citizen Security to address the case.

The investigating body has already collected “all the probative material possible so far.” In addition, the evidence is being evaluated by the experts to determine the responsibilities for the deaths of these young people and it is analyzed if there is “Possible crimes to be charged”.

For its part, the Ombudsman’s Office requested a working table in which the Government of Cundinamarca, the Police, the Superior Council of the Judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office will participate to debate the case. At the meeting, it was found that there was overcrowding in several police stations in the department, since many of the detainees have not been tested for covid-19, a measure required by prisons to receive new inmates.

So, The Ombudsman’s Office assured that Inpec and the Ministry of Justice were asked to expedite the evidence with the Ministry of Health. The body also said that it is accompanying the families and the judicial and disciplinary investigations for these events.

The commander of the Cundinamarca Police, Colonel Cesar Ovidio Castro, assured that there were 8 dead in the fire that occurred in the CAI of San Mateo, in Soacha, on September 4.

The complaint of councilman Cancino

During the morning of November 10, Diego Cancino, Bogotá councilor for the Alianza Verde party, denounced what he called a massacre at the San Mateo Police Station, in the municipality of Soacha, on September 4. According to the lobbyist, As a result of a fire in the compound, “intensified”, apparently, by a policeman, nine young people died.

The public complaint was made through his Twitter account, where he published two videos with images of the events, in which he explains what happened five days before the protests in Bogotá, as a result of the alleged murder of the lawyer Javier Ordóñez, in the that ten young people died, and that Indepaz documents as a massacre perpetrated by members of the Police.

According to Cancino, on September 4, around 11 am, around 20 families went to visit the same number of young people who remained at the Police station. However, the authorities prevented them from seeing the detainees, who, “Previous days they were torturing, mistreating them, they did not feed them”, according to the Councilor.

But the most serious thing, said Cancino, was that between 1:30 and 2 pm that day a fire broke out because one of the young people set fire to a blanket. The flames, according to the lobbyist, were intensified by means of a device that, apparently, “was driven by a policeman.”

“The policemen came out and locked the boys. They didn’t let anyone in, the fire extinguishers didn’t let them use them, the boys got burned, “said Diego Cancino in the video, in which he added:

The relatives were desperate, they didn’t let anyone in, they let the boys set on fire. One died that day and the others the following days from fatal burns.

Through the videos, the Councilor asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the incident and referred to what happened as “police crime.”

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