The events were recorded on a video where the detainee is seen wearing a helmet and a weapon.
The Mayor’s Office of Cali confirmed the capture of a man who allegedly arrived at the bridge in the La Luna sector – on the Suroriental Highway -, to intimidate young people with a firearm who were painting the mural “The cuchas are right.”
According to witnesses of the event, The young people noticed when the man got off a motorcycle and intimidated them with a firearm, to which they responded by recording a video to prevent the alleged attack.
“(…) Is he going to kill us? Is he going to shoot us? That doesn’t scare us. You are ‘paraco’!” expressed the people who recorded the video while intimidating the man to leave the place.
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The Secretary of Security of Cali, Jairo García assured that the authorities arrived at the sector, They captured the man and took him to a police station.
“As soon as the police were informed, they acted quickly. This person was taken to the nearest police station so that the judicial process could progress. This person will have to assume a series of responsibilities as the judicial authorities determine,” he said.
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Controversy
Through his social networks, the congressman of the Historical Pact, Alfredo Mondragón, indicated that the man who tried to attack the group of people He had served as driver of the district office.
“They say that the man who tried to shoot the young muralists in Cali belonged to the person’s office. The same representative confirmed via WhatsApp that Mr. Barbosa, -the person who tried to murder them-, worked in the person’s office with the functions of driver (. ..) It is very serious that people linked to the institutions district officials end up being protagonists of macabre acts,” added the congressman.
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Mural
Through a statement, the Mayor’s Office of Cali announced that said mural made in support of the authors of ““the cuchas are right” and mothers of the disappeared in La Escombrera, corresponds to a temporal expression.
The administration highlighted that will be replaced or modified, once the dialogue table that was established with the artists, the community of the area, the authorities and the Mayor’s Office of Cali is over.
Source: Integrated Information System
