A robot and two dogs from the Prosecutor’s Office CTI looking for explosives among black garbage bags in central Bogota On the morning of Friday, April 1, they discovered the mutilated and burned parts of a man.
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Reaching Calle 13 by Carrera 14, a few blocks from the now disused Bronx Street, the accuser’s private group made the discovery under a trash can and amid rubble and waste. It was 6:30 in the morning when they found the limbs in different bags, they were not even in the process of decay yet.
Scenes like this have been repeated in the capital in recent months, on street corners in different towns and residential areas of the city. In Bogotá, 10 out of 208 violent deaths so far this year have been dismemberment cases.
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it was so On January 23, on the banks of the Arzobispo canal, in a section of Teusaquillo, near a Christian church, with a man of about 35 years old who appeared torn apart and among sacks.
Forensic Medicine He has not yet identified that body, and four months later it was left in the refrigerator without anyone claiming it..
Moreover Bodies appeared floating in the waters of the Bogota (Suba) and Tunjuelo (Ciudad Bolivar) rivers; men and women with their throats cut, their hands and feet bound, with marks of tortureand even a completely burned person thrown into a pasture in Juan Rey (San Cristóbal) eight days ago.
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An investigator told this newspaper that they found “synchronicity and a common pattern” in several cases.
“There are traces of torture, then they suffocate and indeed look mutilated and bagged.”.
For intelligence sources consulted by EL TIEMPO, The rise in these gruesome murders coincides with two hard hits by the authorities recently inflicted on powerful drug lords who control most of the drugs and illegal arms trade in Bogotá.
One of them was the capture of the bloodthirsty and elusive. Néstor Aguirre, alias Camilo, and his main allies, in October 2021. He and his entourage of more than 20 criminals are linked to at least 50 murders in the nation’s capital.
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‘Camilo’ was transported through the city’s marginal neighborhoods in high-end vans and wore jackets from the Bogota Aqueduct to avoid being noticed. He produced more than 2,500 million pesos a month from smuggling cocaine and marijuana, which he brought from Norte de Santander, and was known for paying 500,000 pesos to anyone who killed jíbaros, who did not sell his drugs.
In areas controlled by drug traffickers, notably Kennedy, Tunjuelito, Bosa and Ciudad Bolivar, a war of blood and fire is waged today to seize control of these illegal drugs. Y Added to this is the dissolution of the ‘los Boyacos’ group last December, which controls major sectors of Suba and Engativá..
“New heroes enter the neighborhoods where we shot criminals”, a police source told this newspaper.
And it comes from the criminal group Antioquia, which will move forward with more power in these industries. EL TIEMPO investigated and detected For at least three years, emissaries from Medellin landed in Bogotá. These have been strengthened in recent months by making alliances with local gangs who know the city..
Moreover, they are dedicated to recruiting undocumented Venezuelans they have turned into hitmen and mutilators.
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Concerning the recent findings of torn and tortured corpses and the level of violence used by criminals to leave no clues, mark territory and set scores, Andrés Nieto, a security expert, recalled that something similar happened in Bogotá in 2016 and 2018 when the Venezuelan gang “Yeico Masacre” wanted to terrorize..
“This happens a lot with micro trafficking, criminal gangs try to execute each other or they use this type of violence to send a message of control and authority to other criminal gangs.”
TIME determined that There are prosecutors a few days before the arrest of a few of those responsible for these murders. Also, the case of a man appearing dead on an abandoned mattress has already been clarified.
“There will be consequences for these cases next week,” he told this newspaper. José Manuel Martínez, director of the Bogota branch of the Attorney General’s Office.
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In parallel itCounty security officials are on the trail of drivers and homeless people who will voluntarily or under duress lend themselves to transporting these bodies and leaving them in public places.. That was the case with the body found at Teusaquillo. Truckers passing through the venue left it in a corner with rubble and garbage in the early hours of the morning.
However Cases are also being investigated regarding what drugs and weapons were seized in these cars, such as the 9mm pistol belonging to the Venezuelan Armed Forces.and was seized from two homeless people in Kennedy’s Bella Vista neighborhood last December.
Bogotá Security Secretariat sources told EL TIEMPO: It is an ongoing project with Uaesp and Social Integration to characterize and help recyclers socially. But in addition to this, each car is considered to have a registration and an identity for better control.
“Many of these vehicle drivers, who are checked and sought on the street, in operations,They found weapons and drugs, and in some cases are involved in other types of crime related to criminal groups.”, a knowledgeable source told EL TIEMPO.
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Henry Navarro, representative of the Bogotá Recicla recyclers association, provided:It cannot be said that all recyclers of Bogota and Colombia are evildoers. All guilds have black sheep. For the few who have more than 60,000 recycling families in Colombia, it’s hard to associate them with these events.”
Moreover, He clarified that organized associations are preferred because they are licensed and recognized by their identities.however, independent recyclers are most affected as the community has come to distrust them.
Now With the upcoming arrests, the blood feud between the gangs and the horror scenes on the streets of Bogota are expected to be stopped..
On behalf of the Bogota Metropolitan Police, Immigrants entering the truck drivers union cause fights and arguments among other members of the recycling groupand even fatal injuries and they tried to corner an area to take control of this business.
According to Aníbal Fernández de Soto, Bogotá Minister of Security, in 2021 DANE reported 1,139 murders in the Colombian capital, 10% of these cases, namely, About 114 bodies found correspond to street residents and road workers.
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Again, According to Eliécer Camacho, commander of the Bogota Metropolitan Police, homicides in the country’s capital have decreased by 5% so far in 2022.Compared to 2021.
And regarding the recent cases, the Secretariat assured that investigations are being carried out together with the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office and Immigration to find those responsible for the incidents.
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