2024-10-21 18:50:00
THE Governorate of North Santander confirmed this Monday that one of the police officers who was seriously injured after a an armed incursion was carried out by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the municipality of San Calixto, in the North of Santander.
It’s about Second Lieutenant Anderson Gómez Posada, who served as commander of the police station of the population and who would have been affected by a sniper who would have wounded him in his abdomen.
Him director of the institution, General William Salamancahe assured that a special team has been organized to track down those responsible. In this sense, he announced a reward of up to $100 million for its discovery.
“While We evacuated (the man in uniform) from the harassed area by helicopter towards a health center in Cúcuta, unfortunately He arrived without vital signs. Our prayers are with his respected family,” the general said.
According to the first versions, not only guerrilla warfare broke into the police station of the population, but proven break into a school.
The videos circulating on social networks show it moments of tension that students and teachers experienced in the midst of the raid. In one of them gunshots can be heard as the community tries to protect itself from the attack.
Recently, the The ELN expressed its willingness to meet the delegation for the peace dialogues of the National Government, with the aim of examining the current situation of the process which, in their opinion, has been affected by a series of alleged non-compliance by the State.
The guerrilla group, with which The dialogues have been frozen since April 11th, claims that government failure to comply contributed to the stagnation of talks.
Even if the board showed itself willing to do so continue and the victims’ delegations ask for the resumption of talks, Failure to comply with the ceasefire has brought the situation to its current state. September 11th detonation of a dump truck with explosives in front of a police station in Puerto Jordán, Arauca, aggravated the crisis.
The ELN statement underlines this “until the Government resolves the current non-compliance situation of the Agreements, we will not be able to get out of them freezing to which they themselves led the conversation process.
Him attack carried out this Monday by the ELN It also happens in the midst of a difficult landscape for the total peace policy of Gustavo Petro’s government.
Although the Executive has launched the Operation Perseus in the city of El Plateado, municipality of Argelia (Cauca), the offensive generated multiple retaliations by dissidents of the former FARC, which keeps military and police forces on constant alert.
Recently it became known that the bloodthirsty leader of the Front Carlos Patiño, alias Giovanny, ordered the execution of a weapons plan aimed at attacking, harassing and assaulting the Public force in El Plateado.
The plan, supported by military intelligence, is made up of dissidents they commit the attacks dressed in civilian clothes, taking the military by surprise. The serious thing is that the ordinance was issued despite the risk that the attacks would occur among ordinary citizens.
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