A judge sent a leader of the gangs to jail dissidents of the Farc who ordered the killing of demobilized soldiers who refused to join the guerrilla group again, the Prosecutor’s Office.
The prosecuting body said in a statement that it obtained evidence that accounts for the “Responsibility of Jhon Mario Gutiérrez Bahamón, one of the alleged leaders of the Dagoberto Ramos structure of the FARC dissidents, in various crimes against the signatories of peace in Cauca“, in the southwest of the country.
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Gutiérrez was brought before a judge of guarantees and charged with the crimes of aggravated homicide, aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes, and manufacturing, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms.
The charges were not accepted by the defendant, who must comply with a security measure in a prison establishment.
Dissidents of the FARC
According to the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office, Gutiérrez allegedly ordered “Selective murders against people who refused to be part of the illegal armed group and to intimidate communities that opposed their criminal actions in the department“.
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One of the murders attributed to him is that of demobilized Nelson Montañosperpetrated on April 24, 2022, in Miranda, a town in the troubled department of Cauca.
The victim was in front of a commercial establishment, when she was intercepted by armed men who shot her several times.
Dissidents of the FARC
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Gutiérrez was captured in the department of Huila (south), in joint work with the Police and the Army.
According to figures from the NGO Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz)This year, 22 people have been killed who laid down their weapons after the signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the demobilized FARC in 2016.
EFE
