Investigating the Recent Spike in Homicides of Migrants in Medellín: Purge or Criminal Gang Adjustments?

2024-04-05 19:04:33

Of the eight cases registered in the last 10 days, only in three the circumstances are not completely clear and it is being investigated whether they are part of the purge or other adjustments between criminal gangs.

Courtesy | This version was corroborated by judicial sources, taking into account that many organizations were nourished by this population in recent years.

When he was riding the motorcycle on which he worked in the transportation application service, armed men murdered the Venezuelan José Manuel Salcedo Coa, 19, in the San Javier neighborhood, commune 13 of Medellín, this being the eighth homicide of migrants that has occurred. in the Aburrá Valley, Medellín in the last 10 days.

The authorities attribute the seguidilla mainly to intolerance, although some experts also speak of purging migrants from criminal structures.

On Palm Sunday this criminal streak began, two of the cases occurred in commune 7 (Robledo), two more in commune 10 (La Candelaria), while the rest occurred in commune 9 (Buenos Aires), 11 (Laureles-Estadio) , 13 (San Javier) in Medellín and the La Camila neighborhood, in Bello. The victims were seven men and one woman, the latter was murdered and they tried to burn inside her house. A search is already underway for the person responsible who, apparently, would be a family member.

“Depuration of migrants”

Luis Fernando Quijano, director of the Corporation for Peace and Development (Corpades), explained that “although it is not clear that the murders are related, within the national criminal structures, which are made up of migrants, there is a withdrawal of this population due to various inconveniences”

This version was corroborated by judicial sources, taking into account that many organizations have been nourished by this population in recent years, reaching the point that in the city there are criminal structures of Colombian origin whose members are, for the most part, from the neighboring country. It was even said that the Tren de Aragua in Medellín, one of the most dangerous gangs in Venezuela and which already has a presence in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Panama and the United States, was interested in entering the metropolitan area.

Although the Medellín authorities reiterate over and over once more that they have no indication that this organization is in the city, Quijano assured that there are some “stations” of this transnational organization, which “might be strengthened with the purge, be it armed or simply due to the withdrawal of these migrants, who are forming new common crime organizations, mainly,” Quijano explained.

Intolerance or retaliation?

Of the eight cases registered in the last 10 days, only in three the circumstances are not entirely clear and it is being investigated whether they are part of the purge or other adjustments between criminal gangs, such as the first of this streak, just before it happened the first Holy Week procession through the streets of the Aures neighborhood, which was interrupted by the murder of Wilson Javier Liendo Blasco, 24 years old.

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