People allegedly responsible for crimes against social leaders in Arauca and Cesar were sent to prison

One of the defendants would be part of an armed structure of the FARC dissidents. He is accused of attacking the representative of a peasant community in Tame (Arauca).

Given the evidence provided by prosecutors of the Special Investigation Unit (Unidad Especial de Investigación UEI), judges imposed a prison sentence on two alleged perpetrators of crimes against social leaders in Tame (Arauca) and Bosconia (Cesar).

Armed attack on a community leader

The Office of the Attorney General charged Duber Cruz Ruíz with homicide, qualified theft, criminal conspiracy; and manufacturing, trafficking, possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition, all aggravated, for his possible participation in the armed attack in which the social and community leader Josué Castellanos Pérez died, on March 5, 2024, in Santa Helena area, in Tame (Arauca).

This man and other alleged members of the self-proclaimed Martín Villa front of the FARC dissidents allegedly entered the place where a meeting of principals and teachers from the schools in the area was taking place and disarmed the protection personnel accompanying the victim, who was participating in the meeting, and stole their weapons. While this was happening, the social leader escaped from the place and tried to flee through the Tame river, but was attacked with firearms.

For this crime, the Prosecutor’s Office prosecuted other people allegedly responsible. They are Maycoll Isnardo Enciso Bejarano and Esneider Camilo Carvajal Ocampo, who remain deprived of their liberty in a prison establishment.

Crime of a social leader in Cesar

On June 5, 2023, the social leader Eglis Ediner Escorcia Carranza was traveling as a passenger on a motorcycle on a road in Bosconia (Cesar), when he was approached by a woman who shot him. In the midst of the attack, he tried to avoid the attack; however, the attacker chased him and caused his death.

The investigations carried out by the Office of the Attorney General allowed to establish that Ángela Marieth de La Paz Doria Bracho, alias Pocahontas, would be responsible for the attack. In this sense, she was charged with aggravated homicide, attempted homicide; and manufacturing, trafficking, possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition. She did not plead guilty.

The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.

The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.