:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/T2RBHKOOWVHOPD67ZF5H6FE43U.jpg "The Attorney General's Office filed a complaint against an immigration officer who punched a passenger 1")
Over the past few hours, through a statement, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation issued a statement of charges and extended the three-month provisional suspension against Jaime Alonso Sanchezofficial of the Special Administrative Unit Migration Colombiawho allegedly assaulted a citizen at the international airport The walleyein Bogotá.
Therefore, with the investigation conducted in the case, on November 24, 2022, the official would have been assigned to deal with Mr. John Ramon Camarillo Penaranda, who requested information on an immigration procedure to enter the country. Subsequently, a word cross would have been generated which reached the bad words and after that a physical aggression against the traveler which affected his state of health.
According to Office of the Attorney General of the Nation the officer in the exercise of his duties “would have beaten Juan Ramon Camarillo Penaranda on his face and left leg. In addition, it was learned that the worker’s reckless action caused passenger injuriesto the point that the citizen had to be incapacitated for five days.
To obtain more information about what happened, the investigating entity heard the statement of the person allegedly affected and the supervisor. Omar Hernando Roldan Cruz, among other testimonies of people who were at the scene, which corroborated the facts already mentioned. One of the pieces of evidence that was attached to the case was the medical opinion that was in charge of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Legal Sciences.
In view of the facts collected, the control entity determined that, in technical and scientific knowledge, the verbal aggression What Jaime Alonso Sanchez denounced do not justify that the official acted as he did.
According to the opinion, the worker at the time “had a duty to respect decorum, to use conciliatory forms of settlement, to avoid aggression, to respect the user and, when he felt overwhelmed by an attitude of the latter, he had to get away from the situation to avoid confrontation”.
Under these considerations Public minister, the official knew that actions such as the one registered against the user are illegal and contrary to the public function they must perform. Despite the regulations and knowledge given to the man for his work in society, the investigation revealed that he acted consciously and voluntarily.
Accordingly, the conduct under investigation was determined to qualify as very serious offense by fraud, that is, he did it deliberately and knowing the consequences.
It should be mentioned that after registering the dispute between the official and the traveler, Jaime Alonso Sanchez He publicly apologized and admitted that his actions were wrong, saying he had also been the victim of mistreatment by some travellers.
In November 2022, a video was released which went viral on the social networks and where a serious situation of intolerance has been observed at the airport The walleye in the country’s capital, when an official of Colombian migration had a major setback with a traveler.
In the images of the broadcast clip, it was obvious that the worker of the Special Administrative Unit for Migration Colombia, Jaime Alonso Sánchezhe kicked the traveler and even tried to attack the person checking him in at the time.
The persons in charge of carrying out the functions of surveillance, migration control and foreigners of the Colombian state, spoke out and categorically rejected the behavior of the official, since he “should not appear under any circumstances”. And an investigation was announced at the time in accordance with the disciplinary law.