The Attorney General, Eduardo Montealegre Lynett announced the opening of three investigation lines into the facts for retaking of the Justice Palace in order to establish the potential liability that can be attributed to high Police command in 1985.
“Specifically, we will determine whether there is any liability of General Victor Delgado Mallarino and people of the National Police who were in contact with the Justice Palace take up. Secondly, the other investigation line is to establish potential liability of the DAS Director from that time, General Maza Marquez, “said the head of the prosecuting entity.
The third investigation line relating to the alleged criminal responsibility could be attributed to Belisario Betancur former Ministers President, in order to establish what were the actions taken, and whether or not can be assign responsibility for decision making at that time. “We must remember that the Bogota Superior Court asked the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to assume the research on Justice Palace topic, specifically against possible liability of former President Belisario Betancur,” the Attorney General added.
Moreover, the senior official said that “the Attorney Office shares the orientation that is giving to the State Council to determine the palace facts as a crime against humanity”, after the recent decision of Magistrate Jaime Orlando Santofimio of that corporation, in which it was established that if established as such, since the actions of the security forces and the M-19 were part of a strategy and a general attack against the civilian population.
In this regard, Montealegre Lynett said that “the Attorney Office will request the Accusations Commission a full report about the investigations status of former President Betancur to associate at process, taking into account the request of the Superior Court of Bogota to the International Criminal Court (CPI), that if the Colombian justice and the Accusations Commission does not act, it will be an intervention of the CPI in this case. ”
Attorney General also stated that before the end of the year will resolve the legal status of senior Army officials, including General Rafael Hernandez Lopez, Jesus Armando Arias and Carlos Alberto Fracica Naranjo, by the death of Judge Carlos Horacio Uran.
Finally, he warned about the creation of a special commission headed by Attorney Martha Lucía Zamora, who emphasized that the commission “is made up for scientists from the National Institute of Legal Medicine, National University, the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI), scientists U.S. and international members of the Spanish scientific police, in order to reiterate the work done on human remains found in the soth cemetery of Bogota, to confront and practice the DNA analysis, and also make a new search on Cavalry polygon to possibly find other human remains. “