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After the Colombian President Gustavo Petrodenounced an attack on the director of the National Protection Unit (UNP), Augusto Rodrígueznear his residence Bogotáhe City Security Secretary, Óscar Gómez Herediaannounced a 20 million peso reward for those who provide information to clarify the facts.
“We are offering up to 20 million pesos to the person who will provide us with information that will allow us to identify these offenders, these criminals, in order to bring them safely to justice”indicated the Secretary of Security of Bogotá.
“We understand that they (the prosecution) have made rapid progress that they have organized a whole inter-institutional team, but we join the fight that these institutions have”added the official.
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Let us recall that the attack against the director of the UNP was announced on the night of March 7 by President Gustavo Petro. Through his Twitter account, the National President hinted that the events would be directly related to the corruption complaints within the National Protection Unit that the official has set up.
“They attacked Augusto Rodríguez, director of the UNP and my M19 partner. Augusto denounced the recruiting mafias at the UNP. Today they wanted to kill him, I ask the prosecutor to speed up the investigations into these complaints, the evidence is in his hands,” reported the Colombian head of state on his social network.
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As the hours passed, the director of the UNP recounted in his own voice how the events unfolded. According to a statement shared by the National Protection Unit, the attack occurred after 10:30 at night while he was traveling with his daughter in a vehicle -accompanied by his safety device- in the area of Santa Isabel, south of Bogotá.
Depending on the entity, three men who moved in motorcycles they attempted to “take control and block the protection system and the attempt on the life of Augusto Rodríguez Ballesteros”.
“Rodríguez managed to enter his residence, but before the timely reaction of the escorts who managed to grasp the situation and force the withdrawal of two of the subjects. the third was fatally injured in the crossfire and died instantly. A The UNP escort was wounded by a projectile in the legbut he is recovering satisfactorily,” the National Protection Unit detailed.
The offender who lost his life amid the events has been identified as Fabien Steven Duarte Ortiz, 29 years old, who had a criminal record for murder and who, moreover, had been convicted in July 2012 for the offense of aggravated and aggravated theft.
On the assumptions that the prosecution manages for the attack, as confirmed by the director of the UNP, are the complaints that the official made for alleged irregularities in the management of resources within the entity.
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“There are mafia structures that traffic with protective regimes, transport drugs, weapons and money, this requires decisive action in terms of internal restructuring and management before the authorities to intervene, investigate and sanction”Rodríguez indicated at the time.
The National Protection Unit has also reported that all the evidence of the investigations that have been carried out within the entity have already been attached to the office of the Attorney General of the Nation, so that the information can guide them to those responsible for the crime. attack and carry out the respective prosecutions.