From hiding, Major (r) Juan Carlos Rodríguez asks the JEP for protection

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Army Major Juan Carlos Rodríguez appears before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in macro-investigation cases 03 about false positives and 06 about victimization against the Patriotic Union.

This soldier is known by the alias ‘Zeus’ and became news because On April 10, the Police announced his capture with four other people in Norte de Santander with war material.

At that time the JEP announced that it would investigate the case because if he committed another crime he would be exposed to expulsion from this justice system.

On April 22, he escaped from the Centro Police station in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, and in the last hours from hiding he sent an extensive document to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace asking for protection because he says they want to kill him so that he does not count. the truth.

Explains the major (r) of the Army Juan Carlos Rodríguez that he did not have weapons in his car when he was captured.

“In a lying press conference they claimed that they had seized weapons, ammunition and explosives in my car.. A situation that is not true because that war material was not found in my possession, nor in my vehicle, nor in my suitcase.”

They tell the Special Jurisdiction for Peace who never had the guarantees to defend and that the police lied in the report they presented to the judge.

“The procedures deployed by the Police They ignored all principles of law and legalitywere supported only in arbitrariness, in lie and adjusted the truth to their leading need for results”.

He says that the Police kept him incommunicado and that he was not allowed to speak with his trusted lawyer and recounts the day of the escape and says that what he did was run to save his life.

“On April 21, at night while he was sleeping, a medical crisis occurred for a prisoner, Then suddenly a stampede, human, from inside the cell where I was held, everything became chaos, some mattresses and smoke were igniting in such a small space, I felt terror, fear of being murdered and I ran. I really don’t know what it was, a mass escape or a plan to kill me“I only know that they shot me in the head about 5 times, which is why I felt insurmountable fear and ran to preserve my life.”

Army Major Juan Carlos Rodríguez, known as alias ‘Zeus’, asks the magistrates of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace to intervene in this case and They guarantee your safety and that of your family.