In the last few hours, the Attorney General’s Office confirmed that a man was captured and prosecuted in Popayán, who 15 years ago would have hired an armed group to threaten, torture and displace his cousin due to a family problem.
This story begins in 2007 in the village of El Rincón in the municipality of El Rosario in Nariño, when the person captured today confronted a cousin accusing him of having beaten his daughter. He denied it and did not admit the accusations..
The man, whose name and face the Prosecutor’s Office did not reveal, dissatisfied with his relative’s response, seeks a way to settle accounts and contacts alias Raúl, the leader of an illegal group that was operating in the area at the time of the events, and asks him to intervene. He asks her to intimidate his cousin.
Alias Raúl accepts the request and arranges for several members of the armed group to presumably accompany the prisoner to hold his cousin, who was gagged and taken to the area known as El Matadero.
Once in El Matadero, alias Raúl’s men intimidated him with rifles, beat him and threw him into an abyss, causing fractures in his legs and hands.
Still dissatisfied, according to the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, the captured man and alias Raúl asked the victim for a payment of money, giving him a deadline to admit having beaten his cousin’s daughter.
The victim never accepted the accusations and was forced to leave the region in the company of her family..
Finally, after 15 years, the aggressor and the person who orchestrated the torture of this man, was captured in Popayán (Cauca) and presented before a judge of guarantees, by a prosecutor from the Directorate against Human Rights Violations, who charged him with the crimes of torture and forced displacement.
The man was sent to jail preventively, while the investigations are concluded.
in the last hours The Prosecutor’s Office also announced that a man who would have murdered his partner on Holy Thursday night in the Atlantic capital was sent to jail.
According to the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, the femicide occurred in the district of La Playa de Barranquilla, on April 14, when the 44-year-old man would have wounded his 30-year-old sentimental partner with a knifewhich, according to the opinion of the Institute of Legal Medicine, affected the femoral artery which caused considerable blood loss that ultimately caused his death.
the processed was captured in flagrante delicto by uniformed National Police after being alerted by the community, he will be transferred to the El Bosque District prison to comply with the security measure.
According to information from the Prosecutor’s Office, the 15th Municipal Criminal Court with guarantee control functions imposed an insurance measure in a prison against a man for the crime of aggravated femicide.
Finally, The Prosecutor’s Office also announced in the last hours that the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Villavicencio confirmed the sentence of 15 years and 3 months in prison imposed on Cristian David Carranza Rodríguez, co-author responsible for the death of Juan David Martínez Cardona.
According to the investigation of the accusing entity, it was established that the defendant participated in the attack that cost the life of Juan David Martínez Cardona, after receiving several shots in the village of La Cecilia de Villavicencio (Meta), in April 2016. .
Given the strength of the evidentiary material, the defendant accepted the charges of homicide in competition with qualified, aggravated theft and manufacture, trafficking and carrying of firearms.
It is worth clarifying that this sentence was imposed in the first instance by a circuit judge, in October 2017, but was appealed by the victims’ representative; determination that was confirmed by the Criminal Chamber of decongestion of the Superior Court of Villavicencio.
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