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Those linked to this investigation are the director of La Modelo prison, Carlos Augusto Hincapié Franco, the senior managing director Jorge Gama dose, and the Commander of Custody and Vigilance, Lieutenant Elizabeth vergara vergara.
What the control body is trying to establish, as explained in a statement, is whether the three officials had any “disciplinary responsibility during the clashes” that occurred that night between members of the Inpec guard and the people deprived of liberty, protesting the measures adopted by the National Government in the midst of the crisis that was just beginning with the arrival of COVID-19 in the country.
The Attorney General’s Office also seeks to clarify what was the order that was given “for the use of firearms”And if at that time La Modelo prison had enough staff to guarantee the custody of the inmates.
Regarding the use of weapons, the agency collects the report presented by the person in charge of the weapons room, on March 28, which ensures that “given the urgency” to provide staff to support the situation that was presenting in the prison, “The weapons were not related to the time of delivery or return.”
This procedure, according to the report, “only began to be related when the wounded were taken to hospitals”, a procedure that “makes it impossible to establish the individual responsibility of the perpetrators for the deaths caused.
For the night the mutiny occurred, the agency said that the report stated that there were 107 guards and 57 assistants available, and that is why it will investigate what were the orders given by the directors and the officer in charge of the custodians.
Among the investigations ordered by the Attorney General’s Office are to visit Legal Medicine and the 60th Prosecutor’s Office for Human Rights, to collect evidence on “allegedly irregular conduct”, as well as to listen to the statements of the guards involved.
HRW warns that inmates in La Modelo prison were shot to kill
The decision announced today by the Attorney General’s Office comes two weeks after the report presented by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW), which concludes that the 24 inmates who died on the night of March 21 and early morning of March 22 had gunshot wounds “inflicted with the intention of killing.”
In the revolt in La Modelo, some 90 people were also injured, of which 55 were inmates who were taken to hospitals, while 28 more received care in the health area. The remaining, according to the Attorney General’s Office, were 2 custodial assistants and 5 injured guard officers.
This was the announcement made by the Attorney General’s Office on its social networks.
The @PGN_COL opened an investigation against directors of the La Modelo prison for the events of March 21, in which 24 people died and another 90 were injured https://t.co/VUtzdaxgHf pic.twitter.com/kOGyRWW6yE
– Attorney 🇨🇴 | #WithLosPiesEnLosTerritorios (@PGN_COL) December 4, 2020
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