MADRID, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former head of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), Salvatore Mancuso, recently appointed as peace manager, arrived in Colombia this Tuesday after being extradited from the United States to undergo a judicial examination while collaborating with the authorities. to search for victims of forced disappearance on the border with Venezuela.
«Today, Tuesday, February 27, Mr. Salvatore Mancuso Gómez arrived in the country, on a deportee flight from the United States. Once he arrived, the immigration procedures to enter the country were carried out and he was placed at the disposal of the Colombian Police,” the Colombian Migration organization confirmed on its account on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
Mancuso has been received by the director of Migration Colombia, Fernando García, and by the head of the unit for Non-Repetition of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a sign of commitment to “peace, reconciliation and non-repetition.”
After his arrival in Bogotá, he has gone through a migration process prior to his arrest by the Colombian Police “under strict security conditions” for being considered a case of “extreme level” risk. Mancuso was appointed as peace manager by the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, due to his willingness to collaborate with the authorities.
The former paramilitary leader will be presented before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), a special court that was established after the 2016 peace agreements to host the actors in the Colombian internal conflict, because he has two judicial processes open for his responsibility. in more than 600 homicides, the forced displacement of almost 1,000 people and more than thirty forced disappearances.
Mancuso, known as ‘Triple Zero’ during his armed past, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the El Aro massacre – which occurred in October 1997, when 15 people were murdered and an undetermined number had to leave their homes -, although He did not comply with it by joining the Justice and Peace Law mechanism, promoted by former President Álvaro Uribe to demobilize paramilitaries.
The paramilitary had been in a detention center in the United States for two years, where he had served a sentence for drug trafficking.
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– 2024-05-08 23:11:41
