At the request of the Attorney General’s Office, a judge imposed a prison sentence against Diego Armando Franco Aguirre, accused of murdering a man whom he tried to rob in El Espinal (Tolima).
A prosecutor appointed to the Life Unit (Unidad de Vida in Spanish) of the branch office in Tolima (Seccional Tolima) charged him with homicide and aggravated robbery, both aggravated offenses, as well as the use of minors in the commission of crimes. The defendant did not plead guilty to the charges.
According to the investigation, on June 30, 2024, in Caballero and Góngora neighborhood of El Espinal, Franco Aguirre and a male teenager allegedly surprised the victim from behind in an attempt to rob him. The man tried to fought back and was stabbed on the chest.
The alleged robbers took more than 1,000,000 COP and fled the scene, where the victim died minutes later.
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.