Prosecutor’s Office punishes a colonel who beat a soldier for asking for documents – Investigation – Justice



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The Attorney General’s Office suspended and disqualified for four months the former director of Support for the Transition of the Comprehensive Legal Department of the Army, Lieutenant Colonel Freddy González Prieto, for assaulting a soldier.

In that period the sanctioned official you will not have the right to be paid your wages due to physical and verbal assaults that he uttered against a professional soldier who was doing his job.

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The events occurred on June 15, 2018, when the soldier was providing his service as an auxiliary in the western guard modules of the Military Police Battalion Number 13, in Bogotá.

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That day, according to research, taking advantage of your superior command, González treated the soldier without respect, with profanity,and punched him in the chest for having asked the officer’s wife for identification documents, necessary to be able to identify it and verify its entry into military installations.

Those functions, said the Attorney General, they were to be carried out by the soldier in his service on orders given by the battalion commander.

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For the Attorney General, the way in which the colonel acted constituted a serious offense by way of fraud, since he did not exercise his command with respect for human dignity and carried out acts of violence, with disrespectful expressions, on a subordinate.

In addition, the Public Ministry said, affected the security service that the soldier was providing, which only complied with the protocols that seek to protect all the people who enter the battalion, even the officer who beat him, and his family.

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Against this decision of the Attorney General, González and his lawyer filed an appeal that will be resolved by the Disciplinary Chamber.

JUSTICE DRAFTING
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