2024-01-24 20:57:39
The former director of the “La Modelo” prison in Colombia, released details of what happened there and the power exercised by the paramilitaries. Bribery and smuggling.
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The former director of ‘La Modelo’ prisonone of the largest in Colombia, made a chilling confession before the Special Peace Justice (JEP) –mechanism established following the peace agreement– on the alleged consumption of human flesh of those murdered or missing inside the prison, which generated several reactions, including that of President Gustavo Petro.
Between April 28 and July 15, 2001, William Gacharná Castro was in charge of ‘La Modelo’, as it is called. In her testimony, she stated that there are mass graves inside the prison, which is why the JEP announced that “they will proceed immediately with the help of the Ministry of Justice.”
Last December he was admitted by the transitional justice for his participation and collaboration in crimes committed by paramilitarism in that prison between 1999 and 2003, reports El Espectador.
He is also a former official of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) There was already a process open in the ordinary justice system for the homicides and disappearances of 101 inmates..
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Human meat consumption
Gacharnáaccording to audio fragments broadcast by the media, the product of a reserved hearing of the JEP, He recognized that in that prisonlocated in Bogotá, there are common graves that would have been built by the paramilitary groups that were held there and that had clashes with the members of the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The most terrifying story disclosed by the press is related to the fate of those who disappeared and executed by the paramilitaries who, as recognized by the former official of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec), They were dissolved in acid, cooked and used in the manufacture of sausages.
“There was talk that people were disappeared in hydrochloric acid, that they were cooked in the ranch’s kettles, huge steam pots that are used to prepare meals until they fell apart,” he stated.
Likewise, he said that There was a “micro-business promoted by the paramilitaries, which made sausages, sausages, and hamburger meat, and they said they made them with human meat.”
After learning of these statements, Petro wrote in his X account that what was narrated was “terrifying.”
The common graves
The then director of ‘La Modelo’ during the government of Andrés Pastrana (1998-2002) He did not extend the searches beyond the first floor of the facility and confesses that he did not know how many inmates there were, so disappearances might occur without anyone knowing.
“Sometimes we would ask regarding an inmate to find out if he was really there, we would realize that he was not there when there was a judicial proceeding and the guy would not appear anywhere,” he said.
“Unfortunately I recognize that we did nothing”he acknowledged.
Gacharná believes that there are mass graves inside the prison and considers that he is “more than convinced” that the control he exercised was “minimal.”
“They had many areas to operate“It was impossible for us to have been able to detect all the tunnels they made: some were for escape, others for burying people,” he added.
In his statement, He also admitted having received bribes and allowing the entry of weapons.
paramilitary power
When asked what his actions were when he learned what was happening in the prison he directed, Gacharná said that he never delved into this type of investigation and that he internally “shielded” himself with the explanations given by Inpec, the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office.
“There were no raid operations from 1997 to 2000,” he maintains.
He remembered thatThe power of the paramilitarism was such that it had to ask permission from Juan de Jesús Pimientoalias ‘Juancho Diablo’, a paramilitary and neo-Nazi who maintained control in that prison, to approve his appointment.
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