In two acts of intolerance, in the middle of procedures to restore public order, three members of the Barranquilla Metropolitan Police have been injured and beaten in the past few hours. The latest case happened in the early hours of this Monday, April 10, in the Villa Estefany neighborhood of Soledad municipality.
According to a report from the armed institution, officers responding to calls from neighbors to volume up a residence, located at Calle 50 with Carrera 14C in the aforementioned neighborhood, were verbally and physically assaulted. instead, who refused to turn off the music on a sound system.
The same procedure injured Juan Carlos Simanca Vergara, 43, who was transferred to the Agrupasalud clinic and later referred to the Los Almendros clinic in this municipality. This person is captured according to the authority.
Prior to this episode, which was recorded by officers and local residents, a second lieutenant and a police officer were injured during a procedure conducted in the El Bosque neighborhood, southwest Barranquilla, in the early hours of Sunday, April 9.
According to the Barranquilla Metropolitan Police report, uniformed officers arrived at 63 Calle with the 9K race, in the aforementioned neighborhood, at about 12:40 a.m. to conduct the “intervention and dismantling” of some kind of sound equipment. stabbed that he “disturbed the peace” of the sector.
As the police officers left the scene, a group of people who were in the middle of a public road started throwing blunt objects at them and firing several shots, killing Second Lieutenant Doris Marcela Meza Ávila, 25, attached to the police, was injured. Police station and the Villas de San Pablo CAI.
The second lieutenant showed a wound on her right arm, for which she was transferred to Paso El Bosque and later referred to the Clínica de la Costa.
When, around 01:30 in the morning, several uniformed officers tried to locate those responsible for the attack on the second lieutenant, several people attacked the officers again, throwing rocks and bottles at them. This second attack on the police officers injured police officer Giovany Rafael Salcedo Orozco, 27, assigned to Goes of the Barranquilla Metropolitan Area.
Salcedo suffered a fracture of his teeth, for which he was taken to the Caribbean Regional Clinic.
“They asked us to turn off the pico and we did”
After the incident that took place on 63rd Street with the 9K race, in the El Bosque neighborhood where two police officers were apparently injured for knocking out a picó, this medium returned to the scene of the events to hear the witness version.
The first accounts of the events indicated that in the house of a woman named Elsi Arango Gutiérrez, nicknamed ‘la Mona’, there was a pico who brightened up a neighborhood party and it was there when the uniformed officers of the Metropolitan Police arrived and the woman asked to turn off the music as it was already very late.
Speaking to EL HERALDO, the woman stated that the music “enlivened a celebration between family and neighbors in the area. Nothing happened in my house, the people from the quadrant arrived and asked me to turn off the pico, we did that immediately and we even kept it inside”.
He also assured that the brawl was not with anyone from his house, according to the woman, uniformed officers from Goes came to threaten people so that they would enter their homes: “get in, don’t look for a bad shot, stop gossiping,” the woman added .
“Then we saw people running down the street, from above and below, they started throwing themselves on bottles and stones with the Goes. ”, he finished his story.
Source: El heraldo

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