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The president responded to the former paramilitary chief, who said that there is fear that he is aware of the responsibility of the State and its governments in shaping the self-defense groups. Previously, the president himself expressed his rejection of the extradited ringleaders joining the JEP.
After the former paramilitary chief Salvatore mancuso criticized the President Iván Duque, claiming that “It fears the truth and prevents its reconstruction” –Because the first president opposes that members of the self-defense groups who have been extradited submit to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)-, this Tuesday the head of state answered him and urged not “Play under the table” to be admitted by that court.
From Popayán, where he led a reactivation workshop for Cauca, the president warned that several paramilitary leaders have a pending debt with justice Colombia for crimes against humanity and must return to the country and pay for those crimes.
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“We are not really afraid of it. But don’t try play under the table to try to be linked to the JEP, so that they enjoy any type of prison sanction and the benefit of non-extradition”Declared the head of state.
The president, who did not lower Mancuso from “Bandit” and “criminal against humanity, “alleged that the former paramilitary chiefs have been convicted of drug trafficking, but” the heinous crimes that they committed have to come to answer them here, in Colombian prisons ”,
Duque insisted that “those criminals against humanity ”must serve the penalties that they have pending with the Justice and Peace Law and he warned that if “they are looking for lawyers to serve as a management ‘fop’ to later arrive at the JEP and in that way evade justice, they must be clear that As long as I am the president that will not happen, because here we will continue to defend justice ”.
Previously, in a conversation revealed by the station On the radio Mancuso argued that Duque “is afraid of the truth. He rips his clothes hypocritically demanding truth, but prevents the reconstruction of the same and therefore its undue and illegal interference in the autonomy and independence of justice ”.
The above, after Duque criticized on November 12 that former paramilitaries arrived at the JEP, despite the fact that they demobilized under the Justice and Peace Law, a jurisdiction other than the JEP. “Those who were extradited should not intend to reach the national territory to seek, with gadgets, to link to new transitional schemes so that they do not have a prison sentence nor can they be extradited again, ”the head of state declared at the time.
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In response, Mancuso said: “If we want peace, reconciliation and non-repetition, it is essential that Colombia know what has happened in more than 30 years of war. The State and its governments are responsible for the origin, consolidation and repetition of the armed conflict ”.
The former paramilitary chief assured that it is “out of fear” that some do not want all the actors in the conflict to come to the JEP, “to prevent this truth from being reconstructed together, as it would unequivocally reveal that responsibility of the State and its governments. And that, precisely, is what President Duque does not want ”.
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