Colombian DJ receives burial while the siege tightens on her American boyfriend

The Colombian DJ Valentina Trespalacios was buried in the north of Bogotá this Thursday, the same day that the authorities released videos that would incriminate her boyfriend, the American John Poulos, in the femicide.

The case is followed by the Colombian authorities, who rely on various videos as compelling evidence to point to the American.

The videos, published by the magazine Weekshow the 35-year-old man taking a blue suitcase out of a grocery cart from an apartment located in Bogotá, as well as the moment he gets out of a gray car to throw it into a garbage container.

Aggravated femicide and concealment and alteration of evidence are the crimes that the Prosecutor’s Office will charge the suspect, according to Miguel Ángel del Río, lawyer for the victim’s family.

Hearings against Poulos will take place on Thursday. If found guilty, the American could go to jail for up to 40 years.

The American, believed to have killed The 21-year-old girl was detained on Tuesday at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama, where she planned to travel to Turkey, according to authorities. There he claimed to be persecuted by the Medellín Cartel, whom he also blamed for the death of his girlfriend. On Wednesday, upon arriving in Bogotá, his arrest and capture was formalized.

A preliminary report from Legal Medicine indicated that Trespalacios died of mechanical suffocation, that is, by hanging. His body was found last Sunday, January 23, inside a suitcase that was in a garbage container, west of Bogotá.

[Con información de Jair Díaz, periodista de VOA, desde Bogotá]

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