Given the criticism he received from sectors of victims for having indicated that he did not receive complaints until the scandal broke, General (r) Paulino Coronado, former commander of the Army’s 30th Brigade and accused of false positives, sent a letter to the JEP in which following “an exercise of memory” it indicated that it did receive complaints but he did not believe them at the time.
“After doing a deep memory exercise and supporting myself with the versions of other attendees at that public meeting, I admit that it was convened to respond to the concerns of Catatumbo peasants regarding extrajudicial executions that units attached to the Mobile Brigade No. were perpetrating in the region,” Coronado affirmed.
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He even indicated that at that meeting called by the victims in 2007, even wounded soldiers were brought to reinforce the “support” of the civilian population for the work of the Army, since at that time he considered that there was a “legal war”. That yes, he indicated that although he has no way to support it, he did transfer the complaints to the command of the Second Division.
“In the 30th Brigade that commanded the complaints that were received that day were disqualified giving life to the narrative of legal war” he indicated.
Finally, he pointed out that if at that time they had been proactive, and given importance to the complaints from the state, the tragedy of the so-called “youth of Soacha” would have been avoided that precisely they were “recruited” under deception, to reduce the pressure of the murder of local residents of Catatumbo.