The Casanare Sectional Prosecutor’s Office achieved measure of assurance in jail against John Jairo Posso Giraldo, Eugenio Claros Alomia, Luz Almeida Piñeros Parra, José Humberto Melo Marín and Jhon Jairo Charrupíwho according to the investigations carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office, would be alleged collaborators of the organized armed group Self-Defense Forces Gaitanistas of Colombia AGC.
The investigations revealed that this group of people, apparently, would be responsible for the control of the illicit actions that demisted the AGC in the municipalities of Villanueva, Maní and Aguazul in the department of Casanare; as well as in the municipalities of Cabuyaro, Barranca de Upía and Puerto López in the department of Meta.
The prosecution It is also investigating the possible participation of those captured in cases of homicideextortion and in carrying out pamphlet campaigns in favor of AGC.
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During the capture operations carried out in several municipalities of the departments of Casanare Y Goalthe seizure of a high-cylinder motorcycle was achieved, six million pesos in cash and six cell phones.
Before a judge with a guarantee control function, a prosecutor charged the five people with the crime of concert to commit a crime, position that they did not accept. The judge accepted the requests of the accusing body to legalize the captures, the seizures and to dictate intramural measures against those captured.
After the extradition of Dairo Antonio Usugaalias Otoniel, recognized as the leader of the Clan del Golfo, the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia declared a armed strike that lasted five days and confined the civilian population in eleven departments from northern Colombia.
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In the armed strike that began on May 4, 2022 and lasted until the 10th of the same month, cities like Saint Onofre remained empty after the mandatory confinement of its inhabitants due to the announcement of the AGC.
During this period, the Ombudsman’s Office “monitored 170 vulneratory behaviors against the human rights of the civilian population” in 12 departments among which are 5 homicides, 21 threats and intimacies, 39 cases of vehicle incineration Y 55 mobility restrictions.
According to the report, antioch, Bolivar, cupcake, Sucre Y cease They were the departments in which most of the monitored behaviors occurred.
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For Victor Barreraresearcher of the Line of Construction of peace and State in conflictive regions of the CINEP/PPPthe strike took place in a context where the “frank deterioration of security conditions in many regions of the country where the ELN armed strike had already given a very loud bell about the inefficiency of the State and the current government to respond to the various threats that exist in the territory”.
Barrera also commented that the possibility that the Government was unaware of the possibility of a strike occurring was very high since the gulf clan “It had already organized strikes on the occasion of the capture of its leaders.”
For Barrierduring the armed strike the gulf clan he showed a power “much greater than many had supposed”, and it was evidenced that he exercises it in rural areas “marked by a long history of institutional weakness but also in areas fully integrated into the economic circuits and national politics”.
Barrera commented that the national government should stop minimizing the threat posed by the AGC and guide the actions of the Condition to “undertake massive and coordinated actions to combat each of these facets, not only persecute their leaders, which we know is a strategy that will not drastically destructure or weaken the organization.”
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