The plan to combat drug trafficking in this commune of the Metropolitan Region was addressed by the Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve.
The plan that leads Mayor Rodolfo Carter of Florida to demolish houses that are owned by drug traffickers has raised opinions from all political sectors, where the most prominent was the one offered by the Minister of Justice, Luis Cordero, who described this modality as “legally ingenious” to try to disrupt the business of people who They are currently convicted and in prison for crimes related to these crimes.
During the first two weeks of March, there have been three houses intervened by the Florida authority. According to the community chief, there would be around 20 objectives that will be carried out while a process progresses where he and his officials have even been threatened with firearms from unknown vehicles.
Faced with this work led by Rodolfo Carter, the Government assures that its effectiveness is in question, since it would not be addressing the real objective. “I like the efficiency to solve problems… Demolishing a house is very significant for those who live in the neighborhood, because it is synonymous with crime and fear. and it resolves that feeling”, said the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve.
However, he does not entirely agree with the method. “But that criminal organization is going to buy another house. So the question is whether it solves the problem. I would say that it is more gimmicky than effective within the framework of the global problem of the country”, stated the Secretary of State.
Does the new law contemplate “narco-houses”?
According to the words of Undersecretary Manuel Monsalve, next week the indications of the Ley 20.000 what are you looking for punish more severely crimes related to drug trafficking and illicit association.
“It will make it possible not to demolish a house, but to demolish the assets of criminal organizations, because the houses are demolished, but the organizations have assets to buy another and store weapons and drugs in that one. Profit confiscation will be strengthened to take away the profits from crime. In addition, it will configure other figures that will give the State a lot of power to take away their assets: confiscation without conviction, extended confiscation and equivalence confiscation”, Monsalve said on Cooperativa radio.
“The law will severely punish the use of children and adolescents to commit crimes, especially providing them with weapons. It will allow the sentence of those people who use minors to commit a crime related to drug trafficking to be increased by two degrees: if they were sentenced to five years, to a minimum prison term, and used a child and provided him with a weapon, It will go up to a sentence of 15 years”, he exemplified.
