Mikhail Krasnov questions the lack of progress in the investigation and warns of security flaws after the attack in Tunja.
The mayor of Tunja, Mikhail Krasnov, asked the Government for explanations for the lack of progress after the attack with tattoos against the Bolívar Battalion.
The mayor of Tunja, Mikhail Krasnovasked for explanations National government due to lack of progress in the investigation of the November 8 tattoo attack against the Bolívar Battalion. Authorities have identified three perpetrators.
That Saturday, the Police found a truck with 24 artisanal explosives that two people abandoned before fleeing on a motorcycle. The president Gustavo Petro asserted in the abstract that the author was “a drug trafficking cartel.”
According to Krasnov, thanks to the rapid evacuation of civilians and military it was possible to avoid casualties. Until now, no official information has been received that would allow us to understand what happened or how the failures allowed the the dump truck loaded with explosives will arrive
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The authorities have defended that the detonation was controlled. For Krasnov, however, it was not entirely so. “Whatever had to fly flew and caused damage to the battalion’s infrastructure,” expressed in dialogue with La FM from Valledupar, Cesar.
Krasnov participated in the Capital Cities Security Meeting that Asocapitales called for twenty leaders to express their concerns to the Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez, and to the military and police leadership.
In conversation with La FM, he said that he himself tours the neighborhood where the pump cylinders exploded, and you notice that the neighbors feel fear of any movement that they perceive as irregular, such as parked trucks.
“People are scared. Now is any beer can thrown there an explosive or what?“How are we going to articulate so that people are not afraid?” questioned Krasnov, who said he would ask the Minister Sánchez How the investigations are progressing.
The president assured that the Police and Army They acted quickly, and he reiterated that he does not know the real status of the investigations, although he knows that “There were some raids.” “They have not told me what the deeper investigations“, he stated.
He also highlighted that the explosive material was armed in a city workshop to equip a Duitama dump truck, without the authorities detecting suspicious movementswhich for him shows “certain flaws” in the intelligence and territorial control.
Krasnov noted that the battalion does not have a secure perimeter nor with surveillance elements that would make the installation of the car bomb difficult, and pointed out that the military infrastructure she was so exposed that she could become a new target.
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“We in Boyacá deny that there is presence of armed groupsbut, apparently, there are some networks. That’s what logic tells me. That’s precisely what I want to talk to him about. minister and see what their position is, what they are going to do,” he remarked.
The economist has had conflicts with the Army. Describes the battalion as “a separate homeland” and has opposed requests from its members, such as closing the street where the attack occurred. “I am not going to close one of the most important arteries in Tunja”he settled.
“For me, the best thing would be for them to find the resources to get it out of the city center,” he exclaimed. He related that “in the past” the base was “on the outskirts of the city,” but Tunja grew. “We need to move through that area”Krasnov said.
Source: Integrated Information System
