They thanked the rescue teams and stated that they were at the scene of their own free will.
After the announcement by the authorities of the discovery of 16 missing persons in the La Negra páramo, in Táchira, one of the attendees at the “spiritual retreat” spoke and said that “we were not disappeared”, but that they had been there by their own decision. .
Rosa García, spokeswoman for the group, said that they had traveled to the mountains of La Grita by common agreement, where they hoped to raise “a prayer praying the rosary, asking for the holy mother church, for the pope,” published Últimas Noticias.
The director of the Investigative, Scientific, Penal and Criminalistics Corps (Cicpc), Douglas Rico, explained that the Constitution respects “freedom of worship and religion” and called for not spreading false news.
“My call is to make good use of social networks and not generate so much fake news that puts the population in anxiety,” he said through a video on Instagram.
The governor of Táchira, Freddy Bernal, also expressed himself in the same way and said that they had left for pleasure. There is no one arrested in the case.
Those attending this retreat belong to movements of the Catholic Church that decided on their own to participate in this activity, between August 22 and this Thursday, September 8, when they returned with the help of the Cicpc, Civil Protection and other security agencies, according to what the testimony showed.
However, the alarm was raised by relatives who tried to contact them and might not find them. In addition, they did not leave a major trace and they did not know details regarding the activities they were going to carry out.
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