In the afternoon of this Thursday, May 16, the director of La Modelo prison, Colonel Élmer Fernández, was murdered.in the middle of an act of hitmen. The official was in an Inpec vehicle when he was shot by two men on a motorcycle, in the Bogota town of Barrios Unidos, more specifically near the vehicular bridge on 80th Street and NQS Avenue.as EL TIEMPO learned.
The news was confirmed by the direction of Inpec, led by Colonel Daniel Gutiérrez, this being one of the most serious in the history of the institution. This fact adds to a series of threats and assassin attacks against directors and dragoneers in the last year.
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La Modelo Prison
One of the first officials to speak out was Minister of Justice, Néstor Osuna: “I regret to be the bearer of terrible news, Colonel (r) Elmer Fernández, director of the La Modelo prison, in Bogotá, has just been murdered when he was in his car on Carrera 30 and Calle 80 in the city of Bogotá“.
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According to the portfolio manager, the Director of the National Police, General William René Salamanca“He ordered an operation to find the perpetrators of this homicide and I am attending an extraordinary security council in the National Police. To the family of Colonel Fernández I want to express all the solidarity of myself, the government and the entire country, and to tell the murderers that they are not going to intimidate us and that we will move forward despite their affronts and insolence.“.
It is worth mentioning that days ago, in the penitentiary center that Colonel Fernández was in command, There were altercations and threats to the Inpec personnel guarding this prison facility, which were disseminated through pamphlets..
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That prison, which houses convicted and accused persons, has been the epicenter of a violent history. For example, at the beginning of this century, It was the scene of a war between paramilitaries and guerrillas of the extinct FARC guerrilla, who controlled the patios of La Modelo..
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*With information from EL TIEMPO – JUSTICIA
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