A Prosecutor’s Office issued an indictment against the Colombian Police Captain, Camilo Alberto Gómez González and the Intendant Wallinton Medina Gamboa for the death of a native. The fact happened in November 2005, in a rural area of Caloto (Cauca).
According to the investigation conducted by the 55° Special Prosecutor’s Office, attached to the National Unit of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in Cali (Valle del Cauca), on November 10, 2005, in eviction proceedings for occupancy of lands, in Japio Farm, located in the municipality above mentioned, officers of the Colombian mounted police squad (in Spanish: Escuadrón Móvil de Carabineros) of the Cauca Police Department would have shot in the bodies of the natives Belisario Camayo Guetoto, who was dead, and Gerson Mensa Puyo, who was injured.
It was determined that the defendants, one as squad Commander and the other one as officer in charge of the squad security would have been negligent before the situation, given that as guarantors, after the occurred facts, they allegedly moved away from the place without making the respective records.
Based on these facts, the Prosecutor’s Office called for trial Gómez González and Medina Gamboa, as alleged perpetrators of the offense of manslaughter, in the framework of law 600.
The defendants are released.