The young men launched Molotov bombs on the police commander’s house in Risaralda
After six years of terrorism events in Pereira, Risaralda, in the last hours The Second Criminal Court of the Pereira Circuit condemned Oscar Cortés Zapata and Jay Alejandro Londoño, to pay a 14 -year and six months prison sentence and a fine greater than 1.2 billion pesosfor the acts vandalism and excesses caused by students in Pereira in 2019.
These two young university students on October 15 of that year, in the Alamos sector they descended from a megabús feeder to the driver and the passengers with the threat of setting fire to the car, the car, fireplace, They burned a motorcycle from a transit agent, threw Molotov bombs on the commander’s house of the Risaralda police, Among other acts that filled this sector of the city with panic and chaos.
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The prosecutor in charge of the case at that time Fabio Espitia Garzón, described the facts committed as the two young as terrorists, putting at a high risk the lives of the citizens of this area of Pereira and the family of the police colonel.
“Collecting material would indicate that Alejandro Londoño Arias and Óscar Steven Cortés Zapata, would have agreed and planned the manufacture of improvised explosive artifacts of high destruction power, using these elements during a protest day and with them they would have attacked the house of the Pereira police commander, they set fire to a private truck that was in the property that was in the property. collected, Violent action generated anxiety and shock in the officer’s family, which occupied the property at the time of aggression ”. The prosecutor in charge for the time of the events explained.
Given the seriousness of the facts which were classified as terrorist acts, The judicial office denied the responsible benefits such as house arrest, the order is that the penalty is fulfilled in a prison center.
Source: Integrated information system
