Gasoline hidden in a baby car was used to start the fire that caused the tragedy in Gamarra, Cesar.
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A fact of electoral violence that shuddered the country in October 2023 has just received its final chapter in justice. The Superior Court of the Judicial District of Valledupar confirmed the 60 -year prison sentence for Yuberlis Bermúdez Rubiano, Isaías Peña Oliveros and William Castro Torrado, responsible for the incendiary attack at the headquarters of the Municipal Registry of Gamarra, in the department of Cesar.
According to the judicial findings, on October 28, 2023, in the midst of a protest on an electoral decision that harmed a specific candidate, a group of citizens violently entered the registry facilities. There they assaulted the officials present, burned the building and caused the death of a public servant, in addition to leaving six people with serious burns.
🛑NI The Police could stop the “mob”, asked to release a detainee. Authorities have already identified the man who sprayed gasoline and set the registry on Gamarra, with police and officials inside, happened this Saturday.
Videos: Social networks. pic.twitter.com/eyq0eonvya– Tubarcco (@tubarconews) October 28, 2023
The investigations, led by a prosecutor of the Territorial Support Directorate of the Prosecutor’s Office, revealed the way in which the involved prepared the attack.
“Isaiah Peña Oliveros and her wife, Yuberlis Bermúdez Rubian Attorney General’s Office in an official statement.
An act of violence, in which several citizens entered the headquarters of the Registry of Gamarra (Cesar) and set fire, causing death to an official of the entity and injuries to six people, received the maximum penalty contemplated by the law … pic.twitter.com/xmvsyi3gsh
– Prosecutor Colombia (@Fiscaliacol) August 7, 2025
Crimes that received the maximum penalty
The three defendants were declared responsible for aggravated homicide, attempt at aggravated homicide and fire.
Although the first sentence was issued in May of this year by a specialized criminal judge of Valledupar, the decision was appealed, but now the Superior Court of Cesar ratified the ruling in the second instance, firmly leaving the maximum penalty contemplated by the Colombian criminal law: 60 years in prison.
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