By order of a prosecutor delegate to the Supreme Court with the support of a team of Human Rights, the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) captured the retired Army sergeant Bernardo Alfonso Garzón, who belonged to Battalion Charry Solano and is involved in research that is being conducted by the disappeared during the retaking of the Justice Palace on 6 and 7 November 1985.
Garzón was captured in Cali, Valle del Cauca, and will be transferred to the Attorney General’s Bunker in Bogotá.
Announcing the arrest, the Prosecutor General’s Office, Eduardo Montealegre Lynett said his detention give new lights on the research: “We may consider it as a kind of missing link in the case of the Palace of Justice, is a person who has knowledge very important about the facts. ”
The Attorney General hopes that the retired officer collaborate with justice, for that based on what he knows of the facts make important contributions to research in the case of the missing of Justice Palace “this exsargent statement is supremely important to clarify issues of missing persons of Justice Palace, as Erica Bautista and other people”.
Although initially said that Garzon was not in the Palace of Justice Prosecutor’s investigation establish through videos posted by media, the official (r) was close to the scene 6 and November 7, 1985
Garzón had made some statements to the Justice in which committed by some Army officers or the disappeared, but later retracted.