Beyond so many concerns that were planted in our minds and hearts after the unfortunate and inexplicable episode of the soldiers disguised as an illegal armed group threatening the inhabitants of a very distant village in the department of Córdoba, it is urgent that the authorities, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Army , clarify what happened with the shots that attacked an Army helicopter in which the members of a commission from the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the Ombudsman’s Office were traveling who sought to reach the place to investigate what happened with that group of soldiers.
The video that was known of the moment in which the helicopter begins to make the approach to land in the area where the unit of soldiers committed the unforgivable acts is the first clue to try to reach a conclusion that, I repeat, must be urgent, but guaranteed by technical elements. As seen in the images, the shots against the aircraft were fired very few meters from the site that had been prepared by members of the Army itself to make the landing. That is to say, a few dozen meters from the place where the soldiers were, the Gulf Clan was supposedly shooting at the helicopter. Why was there no reaction from the Army to this clear attack?
This weekend the Clan del Golfo, through a pamphlet, whose authenticity is in the process of being verified, assured that it had nothing to do with the shots at the helicopter. A fact that contrasts with the very quick announcement by the Army commander, General Luis Mauricio Ospina, who in a matter of hours and at a press conference pointed out that criminal group as responsible for the shots at the aircraft.
It is clear that an illegal group like the Clan del Golfo should not be taken at face value. However, it is not only the members of that armed organization who deny responsibility for these events, but also peasants in the area stated in recent days to the region’s media that it is not true that an illegal armed group was the one that attacked to the helicopter with rifle bursts. “That was a setup to sabotage the organizations that arrived in the helicopter,” said one of the residents of the village to the Caracol Radio microphones.
The issue of the shooting at the helicopter is not trivial if one takes into account that if it is proven that there was friendly fire, that is, shots fired by the Army towards an aircraft of that same force, it would reveal a serious institutional rupture in which a group “dissident” does not respect the institutional command, to the point of attacking the lives of his own colleagues, as well as members of State investigation organizations, such as the 20 occupants of said helicopter.
The same attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, said last week that no hypothesis has been ruled out regarding the attack against the commission of investigative entities. The prosecutor does well. Something smells bad about this whole episode of soldiers spreading terror in remote areas of the country. And that stench becomes even more unbearable when the events occur a few weeks before the regional elections. Are there Army units playing politics? Are there those from high command who want to hide such a serious, very serious situation?
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2023-09-18 04:30:01
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