In less than two days, two cases were presented in the La Castellana and San Joaquín neighborhoods. The authorities do not rule out that it is the same group.
The Metropolitan Police of Valle de Aburrá is on alert for what would be a new form of theft in the city, in which tourists foreigners who use dating apps have ended up being victims of attacks and torture by criminal networks.
The last two cases occurred in less than two days, when two foreigners were found with signs of torture in commune 11 (Laureles – Stadium), one in the La Castellana neighborhood and another in the San Joaquín neighborhood.
The first victim is a Colombian-Venezuelan citizen, identified as Sahmir Javier Gonzalez Sarmientowho was found dead in a room in the La Castellana neighborhood, tied hand and foot and with stab wounds.
Colonel Rolfy Jiménez, deputy commander of the Aburrá Valley Metropolitan Police, explained that according to the first investigations of that institution, González would have arranged a meeting with another person through a technological platform moments before his death.
“It requires, through the Internet, services of a sexual nature, some people enter this place of residence, they gag the citizen and attack him, and, apparently due to a situation of mechanical suffocation, this person is left there without vital signs”, the uniformed man reported.
The second victim is a citizen of Australian nationality, that he would also have used these technological platforms and would have ended up gagged in a hotel located in the San Joaquín neighborhood.
“Two people are seen entering there and the same thing, they gag him, physically assault him and steal his belongings. Luckily, this citizen is alive”, reported Colonel Jiménez.
After analyzing the material from several security cameras, located near the two scenes of the events, the Police anticipated that one of the hypotheses being studied is whether the same criminal group would be behind this new strategy.
However, while the investigations progress, the commander called for extreme care when using this type of technological platform.
“It’s a particular activity that takes place here in Medellin, everyone already knows it, but it doesn’t always end the way the citizens want it to,” said Jiménez.