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Due to the alleged irregularities that could lead to the violent events of March 21 in the La Modelo prison in Bogotá, in which 24 inmates died and more than 80 injured amid protests, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation opened a formal investigation.
For the moment, this investigation covers Carlos Augusto Hincapié Franco and Major Jorge Gama Doza, who were director and deputy director of La Modelo at the time of the events. Lieutenant was also linked Elizabeth vergara vergara, commander of custody and surveillance in charge from Friday, March 20 to Monday, 23, 2020.
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For the Attorney General, Inpec documents from the days prior to the protest already warned of the possibility of alterations due to the measures that were being taken to prevent covid-19 as well as the lack of comprehensive health care for inmates.
For example, the control body collects several minutes of the Inpec, one of them dated March 19, 2020, in which it is stated that the consortium in charge of the health of prisoners I was not guaranteeing health service as it should beTherefore, the directors of the prisons had to manage the attention of the emergency plans.
That act says in part: “This weekend is going to be complicated, it is important to socialize the measures very well, for many it will not be very easy to understand the situation in the country; This weekend the ERON Directors must be very aware, we have to be in charge of the Establishments, due to the critical situation that is being experienced, they must have already coordinated with the National Police and the National Army the support in case of a mutiny and the necessary coordination with the authorities, health institutions and others “.
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An act of March 18 also warned that there was “a probability of alterations to the internal order by those deprived of liberty due to the preventive measures adopted in the face of the emergency generated by covid-19 (…)it is necessary to meet the security council and design a contingency plan with a view to attending, reducing and mitigating any outbreak of disciplinary actions “.
According to a report delivered by Inpec, on March 21, 2020, 55 injured persons deprived of liberty required external hospital care and 28 inmates were treated in the health area, 2 seriously injured custodial assistants were hospitalized and 5 officials from the injured guard. In addition, 24 deprived of liberty died.All the deceased, except one, died from a firearm projectile, according to the autopsies of Legal Medicine.
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It was also established that in the midst of the events, inmates took a rifle from a guard. In any case, for the Attorney General’s Office that day there was a high deficit of custodial personnel, since there were 107 guards present and 57 auxiliaries available for the security and support services, but not all the personnel who normally are in the week.
In addition to opening the investigation against the three linked, the control body ordered a visit to La Modelo to obtain information on the security command panel that weekend, to determine who was the commander of custody and regular surveillance for the date of the facts, what actions did the prison director take with the territorial entities and other authorities in the face of the covid-19 situation.
It also seeks to establish, among other things, what actions the management took based on the covid-19 measures and what measures regarding the alleged rumors that circulated on social networks regarding an alleged pan and escape plan that the companies were going to carry out. people deprived of liberty, among others due to the spread of covid-19, and which led to the events of March 21, 2020.
Equally, It will be sought to determine if the prisoners on March 21, 2020 arrived at the armerillo and seized weapons, and several inmates who were injured that day will be heard at random in a statement, as well as the guards of the special operative groups that participated in the events of March 21, 2020.
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