Colonel Carlos García Suárez, commander of the Metropolitan Police, attributed the attacks against the facilities of the La Economía drug stores in the municipalities of San Pelayo, San Carlos, Cereté and Ciénaga de Oro, the latter the homeland of President Gustavo Petro.
Meanwhile, Colonel Elkin Jesús Corredor Rueda, deputy commander of the Córdoba Police Department, confirmed that A similar situation was recorded in the municipalities of Sahagún, Tierralta and Montelíbano.
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It turned out that Subjects with firearms arrived at the premises where the pharmacies operate and immediately proceeded to intimidate the employees and they forced them to close the doors to the public and later fled.
Minutes later, the Police surveillance patrols arrived to provide security to avoid attacks with explosives, as occurred in past years in municipalities located in the south of Córdoba.
“Today, Monday morning, some criminal actions were presented to us. against commercial establishments, particularly drugstores, and the events are related to extortion issues and those responsible for these events correspond to the Javier Yepes Cantero structure of the Clan del Golfo,” explained the senior officer.
The colonel said that the respective investigations were immediately initiated, in order to clarify and find the whereabouts of those responsible for these violent actions that generated panic in the municipalities in question.
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He recalled the recent operations that have been carried out against these criminal gang structures in the municipalities where the attacks occurred this morning.
In Ciénaga de Oro, eight people were captured, among them that of alias ‘Escorpión’, who would be the military leader of the area of this structure and alias ‘Chamo’, linked to monitoring the troops that provide security in the area, as well as arms and narcotics trafficking.
