{"id":39488,"date":"2020-11-17T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=39488"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:06:55","slug":"alias-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bcain-head-of-los-caparros-and-one-of-the-main-people-responsible-for-crimes-against-human-rights-defenders-was-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2020\/11\/17\/alias-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8bcain-head-of-los-caparros-and-one-of-the-main-people-responsible-for-crimes-against-human-rights-defenders-was-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Alias \u200b\u200bCa\u00edn, head of \u2018Los Caparros\u2019 and one of the main people responsible for crimes against human rights defenders, was killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Due to the investigative actions carried out by the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police, it was possible to arrive at the place where alias \u2018Ca\u00edn\u2019 was hiding. He died in the middle of an exchange of gunfire in the rural area of \u200b\u200bTaraz\u00e1 (Antioquia).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">As part of the itinerant and coordinated work carried out in the territories as defined by the Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, to clarify the crimes of human rights defenders, the most important blow against &#8216;Los Caparros&#8217;, one of the main criminal structures responsible for these killings in C\u00f3rdoba and Antioquia, was achieved.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">After one year of verifications and collection of evidence, the Office of the Attorney General, through the Special Itinerant Group, and the National Police, identified a house in the rural area of \u200b\u200bTaraz\u00e1 (Antioquia), where Emiliano Alcides Osorio Macea, alias Ca\u00edn, head of &#8216;Los Caparros&#8217; was hiding.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">During the investigations, more than 60 phone lines were intercepted, 10 search warrants were carried out in different parts of Bajo Cauca, and testimonies and other elements that allowed to establish the exact moment in which the aforementioned leader would be in the property were collected.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">With this information, and the corresponding court orders, a joint operation was launched. Members of the security ring of alias Ca\u00edn put up resistance when the operation was carried out and as a result there was an exchange of gunfire. Osorio Macea died in the confrontation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Alias \u200b\u200b\u2018Ca\u00edn\u2019 had three arrest warrants in force for the crimes of aggravated homicide, and manufacture, trafficking, possession of firearms and accessories. The Special Itinerant Group of the Office of the Attorney General had linked him to different processes due to his participation in the crimes against of four human rights defenders:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Jader Leonel Polo Baltazar and Jader Manuel Pertuz Polo, beneficiaries of the Program (<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Programa de Sustituci\u00f3n Integral de Cultivos Il\u00edcitos<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">) murdered in the rural area of Versalles in San Jos\u00e9 de Ur\u00e9 (C\u00f3rdoba), in May 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Querub\u00edn de Jes\u00fas Zapata Avil\u00e9s, president of\u00a0<\/span><i><span lang=\"en-US\">Plataforma Municipal de la Juventud de Caucasia<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0The crime took place in neighborhood Las Brisas de Caucasia, Bajo Cauca, in February 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Eladio de Jes\u00fas Posso Espinosa, treasurer of the Community Action Board in the rural area El Triunfo, in a small town named La Caucana de Taraz\u00e1 (Antioquia). His murder was known in October 2018.<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">CTI members of the Office of the Attorney General belonging to the Special Itinerant Group, carried out the fingerprint verifications and examined Emiliano Alcides Osorio Macea\u00b4s corpse and established his identity.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><u><span lang=\"en-US\">Operation against \u2018Los Caparros\u2019<\/span><\/u><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The actions carried out by the Special Itinerant Group against the structure &#8216;Los Caparros&#8217;, headed by alias Ca\u00edn, are part of an investigation project in which 17 criminal acts, 11 acts against human rights defenders and 6 against the population have been clarified. Most of the cases took place in C\u00e1ceres, Caucasia and Taraz\u00e1, in Bajo Cauca, and in San Jos\u00e9 Ur\u00e9, south area of C\u00f3rdoba. Likewise, 6 convictions against members of this illegal organization were obtained.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The investigations aimed at locating the head of \u2018Los Caparros\u2019, alias Ca\u00edn, allowed the Office of the Attorney General to achieve 13 important results in different cases, which means a 76.47% progress in clarification.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the investigative actions carried out by the Office of the Attorney General and the National Police, it was possible to arrive at the place where alias \u2018Ca\u00edn\u2019 was hiding. He died in the middle of an exchange of gunfire in the rural area of \u200b\u200bTaraz\u00e1 (Antioquia).\u00a0 As part of the itinerant and coordinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39489,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39488\/revisions\/39489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}