A small business that represented the family’s livelihood.
News Colombia.
Outrage and pain has been generated in Buenaventura by the looting of the “JUDAS” store, owned by Julio’s parents and another minor who miraculously survived a serious traffic accident in which their parents Diego Fernando Suárez and Lina Marcela Díaz died on Buenaventura Highway.
TuBarco learned that the incident occurred a few hours after the tragedy and has been rejected by the community, which considers the robbery a re-victimization of a family hit by the loss. «They looted everything. Indolent»said a colleague who covers the news from that municipality in Valle del Cauca.
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In the accident, Julio managed to save his life because, minutes before the impact, he got out of his parents’ vehicle to urinate, a decision that ended up making the difference between life and death. The car in which they were traveling was violently hit from behind by a tractor-trailer that, according to preliminary versions, had lost its brakes.
In the same accident, another minor was also rescued alive from among the twisted cans of the car, in a scene that moved the first responders and witnesses of the event. Both children were transferred to healthcare centers, where they receive medical attention and psychological support.
While the city was still assimilating the magnitude of the tragedy, unscrupulous people took advantage of the absence of the establishment’s owners to loot the JUDAS store, a small business that represented the family’s livelihood. The robbery occurred amid the mourning and uncertainty that now surrounds the future of the surviving minors.
Neighbors of the sector and community leaders expressed their rejection of what happened, describing the looting as an inhuman act lacking all solidarity. “Not only did they lose their parents, now the little they had was also taken away from them,” said residents of the neighborhood, who ask for justice and greater institutional support.
The authorities are carrying out investigations into both the accident and the looting, while social organizations and citizens call for empathy and solidarity support for the surviving children. The story of Julio, saved by an everyday act, contrasts today with the harshness of a tragedy that continues to leave open wounds in Buenaventura.
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