For complicity in a terrorist attack committed on the outskirts of the prison national Bellavista in the municipality of Bello (Antioquia), the Fourth Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Medellin, was sentenced to 5 years in prison, Rodier Andrés Gómez García, alias Richard, 31 years of age.
In the act perpetrated by members of the Fifth Front of FARC, on 16 May this year, were injured a guardian of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec), and two individuals who were riding in a vehicle. The explosive device composed by indugel and shrapnel was placed in a trash can located outside the prison.
Telephone interceptions allowed investigators to establish that the attack was to be made the day before, but the pump could not be activated by the terrorists. The sentenced was part of the network’s link of the mentioned subversive fraction that offenders in the Urabá region.
During the accusation hearing Gómez García, captured in a joint operation of the CTI, the SIJIN and the Army last July 25, accepted the charges put to him by the prosecution for the crime of terrorism. By the same facts was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Edison Chavarriaga Diego López, alias El Tombo, urban leader of the FARC in Medellin.