After more than six hours, the public order situation continues to be complicated in the neighborhood Santo Domingo, Popular Commune 1 of Medellin, where there have been exchanges of shots between gangs in the sector.
Although the authorities have not provided details of what happened in the area, specifically in the La Torre and El Pinal sectors, Around 6:00 in the followingnoon, police operations continued to control the situation and restore calm in a sector where this type of event had not been recorded for several years.
As EL COLOMBIANO has been reporting, since noon they began gunfire exchanges between members of some criminal gangs in the area. Testimonies of citizens who communicated with this medium specified that due to the confrontations the neighborhood was practically closed for the entry and exit of people.
“The parents they were forced to go to a school by their children and it is possible that this Wednesday there will be no classes, because there is a lot of fear among the inhabitants”, he said without mentioning his name.
hours before, the Police and his Special Operations Group, Goes, had confirmed capturing a subject apparently involved in the clashes, whose weapon was seized.
Among the citizens there is surprise because several years ago there had been no confrontations in this area of Medellín, which ten years ago was almost a territory of war similar to what was also experienced in commune 13 in other years.
“What we are afraid of is that they will let him take advantage of this situation and we will have another Orion operation,” said the source, who asks the authorities not to lower their guard.
One remembers those times slaughter of six people (April 7, 2009) in an event carried out by a combo that had the intention of ending the life of a subject nicknamed “La Cachona”, who wanted to take power in the neighborhood in a context in which The territory was basically dominated by the gangs “La Galera”, “La Silla”, “La Torre” and “La 38”.
Although this war lasted several more years, finally, and little by little, calm came and Popular 1 became one of the calmest areas of the city. Even this year, to date, the commune does not register murders. Last year, in the same period, the count of the Sisc (Information System for Security and Coexistence) only registered two cases.
Even, In all of 2021, the commune added 12 homicides, while in Robledo there were 32, in Castilla 37 and in La Candelaria 58.
It is expected that in the next few hours the authorities, both from Medellín and Bello, given that there is territory in both cities in this area, will provide more information regarding what happened on Tuesday followingnoon. Among the community there is anxiety.