“The vandals lost”: the controversial celebration when the victory of the ‘NO’ was known in the motion of censure against MinDefensa

Last Tuesday, October 13, the plenary of the Chamber, with 136 votes for no and 24 for yes, denied the motion of censure against the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo. At the end of the vote, a representative shout was heard celebrating the decision, which several congressmen considered disrespectful.

Time records that an unknown and thick voice broke into the Zoom platform and shouted: “The vandals lost.” Arenga that generated annoyance especially within the opposition bench. The representative to the Green Alliance Chamber, Katherine Miranda, was one of the first to speak on her social networks.

Inti Asprilla, a congressman from the ‘green’ party, spoke in the same vein, challenging the author of the cry and invited him to “face the country” and announced that he would request the recording to determine who the person was who celebrated in this way.

For her part, the Farc senator, Sandra Ramírez, affirmed: “those of the opposition are not vandals, contrary to this # LostThe Vandals who decided to continue at war, who accept violence against the people only to protect their political and personal interests. The # RevolcónAlCongreso2022 has to punish those who voted NO ”.

Germán Navas, a member of the Polo Democrático, pointed out that the person responsible for the cry would be a member of the government party from the Democratic Center, but so far no one knows who.

Saúl Franco, a truth commissioner, spoke about the incident on La W radio and said that it seems to him a serious act and that it shows that a spirit of reconciliation has not yet been reached.

For his part, Jorge Alberto Gómez, representative of the Democratic Pole, denounced that they had already been victims of an attack by another member of the Congress of the Republic and presented a video showing Alfredo Ape Cuello Baute, from the Conservative party, campaigning with the demobilized of the Farc and the party product of the Peace Agreement of the extinct guerrilla; hinting that this would be the author of the phrase.

“In the last session, when we did the debate, we were victims of a minor aggression by a representative. You have just heard the cry that someone gave in the plenary of” the vandals lost “, I do not know if you heard it, I I heard it perfectly. They have just attacked us again, ‘we are the vandals, we are murderers, we are criminals, we exchange rifles for megaphones,’ they told us all that here, “said representative Jorge Alberto Gómez.

To this Ape Cuello assured that he is not the one with the cry, but the one who appears campaigning with members of the Farc.

“I was the one in that video, because in this country you find ex-combatants like those, who are in an area near Valledupar, who were used in the middle of the war, but you, Dr. Gómez, are pimps who don’t give nor hiccups, when these murderous bandits give the list of those who in cold blood and cowardly killed in the country, “said Ape.

Wilmer Leal, from the Alianza Verde party, asked that they be the bodies of Congress those that investigate the attacks and asked the board of directors to impose order.

“I find it unfortunate that sectors of the extreme right call other congressmen bandits, as they did here after the vote. I ask, President, that from the board of directors and with the recordings that exist, a statement be passed to the Ethics Commission so that these gentlemen stop treating the opposition as vandals and criminals, if it is they from their actions who every possible and they repeatedly call for hatred ”, insisted the politician.