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September 14, 2020 – 09:17 pm
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General Gustavo Moreno, director in charge of the National Police, assured that 43 disciplinary investigations are being carried out that link around 56 uniformed personnel who are observed in videos exercising irregular actions during the protests and riots last week in Bogotá.
Regarding the origin of the investigations, the officer reported that six of them are for the use of weapons. “There are policemen who frankly manifested – yes, I fired my firearm. Then there we enter to analyze the circumstances of time, manner and place that led that policeman to make that decision ”.
He indicated that seven uniformed men are being investigated for the death of Javier Ordóñez that occurred in the early hours of last Wednesday and added that there are three investigations that the Police have opened informally for different events surrounding the context of violence originating after the death of the man.
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“The Attorney General’s Office has an investigation in which two patrol officers are linked to the murder of Ordóñez. The Police Inspection has two investigations with six police officers who are being investigated with related events. The Metropolitan Police of Bogotá carries out a total of 51 investigations with 57 officials investigated “, the officer reviewed.
According to the police report, there are to date 415 complaints of damage to uniformed personnel and infrastructure. There are 193 complaints for violence against a public servant and 189 complaints for damage to someone else’s property.
“We have 312 police officers injured, 258 individuals injured and we regret the death of 11 people, eight in Bogotá, three people in Soacha,” argued the officer.
Regarding the criminal investigations, Moreno assured that 37 firearms have been delivered to the Attorney General’s Office for their respective ballistic analysis.
The Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, once again rejected Ordóñez’s death: “what happened and what we have seen in the images of the procedure, was outside all the protocols of the National Police and the training that they always receive respectful of the human rights. That is why we say that we share the outrage at what happened and we guarantee the constitutional right to protest, as long as it is peaceful. “
Trujillo assured that the events that occurred between Wednesday and last Thursday were systematic and planned actions with a single objective: to attack the institutionality of the National Police.
“Coordinated, because this is demonstrated by intelligence information and investigative lines, there is organization on the part of these people, on the part of these groups and collectives to infiltrate the social protest, and systematic, because on this occasion the target was the National Police to through its infrastructure ”.
The head of the defense portfolio announced that around 95 police stations were attacked, of which 69 were in Bogotá. “They were not just paintings, there was fraud against the police who were in those immediate attention centers.”
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