Every time the date of January 27 approaches, the pain erupts like on that Saturday morning in 2018. Undoubtedly, the terror continues to eat away the wounds left by the attack on the San Jose Neighborhood Police Stationin Barranquilla, at the hands of the Then. Five years later, despite long and lengthy hearings in the trial of three suspects, the indelible sense of impunity haunts the survivors and the families of the dead uniformed officers. have no conviction.
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On November 17, 2022, history turned dark again. With the help of the expiration of time limits, those accused of terrorism were released. Nilson Mier Vargas, Dalila Duarte Martinez and Cristian Camilo Bellon They were released from prison by the decision of a warrant judge.
The procedure was based on the fact that the defendants remained behind bars despite the fact that they had already served the prescribed time (150 days) counting from the starting date of the trial, and taking into account that it has not yet taken place the hearing or its equivalent, as provided by Act 1760 of 2015.
Despite this, the only hope for those affected by the case lies with the Prosecutor’s Office and Barranquilla’s Single Specialized Criminal Court. The latter is leading the trial at the trial stage against the three involved; However, it will be the prosecutor who, with the evidence he has yet to show, gets a punishment or not.
EL HERALDO learned that on May 16 and 17 of this year, the hearings will be held in which the prosecutors will present all the material against Mier, Duarte and Bellón. It seems to indicate that there is an important piece of evidence with which the detectives want to win the trial, this appears after the file, by the Public Prosecution Service, rested over the years with 62 witnesses and some 30 experts, of different specialties. years of the process.
Elements such as confiscated plans, interviews, testimonials from survivorsamong other things, obtained security camera videos, targeting the accusation of those allegedly responsible for the deaths of six police officers in that outbreak, which also claimed about 40 victims.
Source: El heraldo
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