BOGOTÁ – A mob set fire to a police station in Bogotá on Tuesday in which there were 10 agents inside who managed to escape the flames, while there were clashes between the public force and protesters who denounce excesses of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (Esmad) on a new night of chaos.
Faced with this situation, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, asked the Colombian Defense Minister, Diego Molano, that the public force “help guard” the police detention centers, where there are 2,825 people detained, to “prevent them from putting the lives of those deprived of liberty at risk “.
“Only the coexistence managers, dialogue mediators, human rights commissions and the Metropolitan Police will continue to be in charge of security and coexistence in the streets and neighborhoods of the city. In no case have we requested nor will there be militarization of the city,” said López On twitter.
The riots occur within the framework of the violent protests that began on April 28 and that have left, according to the Ombudsman’s Office, 19 dead to this day, a figure that social organizations such as Temblores raise to 31.
Likewise, the organization denounced that at least 89 people have disappeared in the protests, of which only two have been found.
FIRE OF A POLICE STATION
According to the authorities, the Police Immediate Attention Center (CAI) in the La Aurora neighborhood, in the south of the city, was cremated when there were 10 agents inside, of which five were injured.
“Prompt recovery for our police officers. Thanks to the community that interposed so that they were not incinerated within the CAI Aurora facilities by social misfits,” said the commander of the Bogotá Police, General Óscar Antonio Gómez.
The Secretary of Government of Bogotá, Luis Ernesto Gómez, assured that 16 CAIs have been “vandalized” in Bogotá, including that of La Aurora.
“At this time there is an escalation of violence in the city, here in the Tintal Library a bus of the SITP (Integrated Public Transport System) has just been incinerated and in other parts of the city,” added the official, who is in the south of Bogotá attending to the situation.
The Civil Police of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, identified the young man as Fabiano Kipper Mai, an 18-year-old student in the last year of high school.
CHAOS AND Clash
The clashes between the uniformed men and the Police in Bogotá began in the afternoon in various sectors of the south of the city and were replicated in other areas where social organizations have denounced excesses of Esmad at night.
One of the most difficult situations is experienced in the Americas Portal, in the west of the city, where the clashes have lasted for hours, there are at least three injured and a bus was burned, according to the authorities.
There were also riots in the Castilla neighborhood, where the protesters were repressed by Esmad and the CAI was also attacked.
In other cities such as Cali (southwest), where an unknown number of people have died during the protests, the clashes continued despite the fact that five people died the day before and 33 more were injured, according to the Mayor’s Office.
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CUPS AND CANDLES
Although violence has been the constant in the demonstrations, on Tuesday, the sound of the cacerolazos echoed in Bogotá and there were peaceful candles in dozens of places where protesters gathered to reject the police repression and the violence that bleeds Colombia.
Even the protests on Tuesday in the capital were joined by Dominican friars who marched through the streets of the city with a Bogotá flag and a sign that read “Love one another.”
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