‘A missing person must report immediately’: Legal Medicine
Ene 05, 2022
The National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences reiterated to the public that it is already in the past that the disappearance of a person must be reported to the authorities following 72 hours, following having no information on his whereregardings.
Remember, the search for a missing person must be immediate and the authorities cannot refuse to receive the report. Who defines the moment of disappearance is the family member, not the authorities, “said the entity.
He also detailed that complaints can be made to the Attorney General’s Office, the National Police or at any Legal Medicine headquarters.
According to the National Center for Historical Memory, Cesar is one of the nine departments in the country most affected by the armed conflict, kidnappings and forced disappearances.
In this context, the CNMH has indicated that in Cesar from 1958 to 2016 there were 3,755 cases of forced disappearances, 411 cases of recruitment and use of minors under 18 years of age in the armed conflict and 2,892 cases of kidnappings, leaving a total than 7,058 people disappeared, kidnapped and recruited in the department.
Faced with this scenario, in August 2021, the Search Unit for Persons deemed Disappeared together with other State entities with a presence in Cesar and Valledupar signed the ‘Pact for the Search of Persons and Non-Repetition in the Department of the Cease’.
On the other hand, there are currently three people kidnapped in this department.
One of them is Jesús Emiro Blanco, abducted from his home in December 2021, in the municipality of Pailitas. Also Sebastián Londoño Agudelo, kidnapped on May 22, 2021, in Aguachica, and 71-year-old Evangelista Bohórquez Contreras, kidnapped since March 19, 2020, between Río de Oro and Ocaña.
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