The mayor of Cúcuta, Jorge Acevedo, reported that the security protection scheme was withdrawn to the director of the Cúcuta model prison, Ángelo Smith Torrado, despite death threats against him.
The leader of the Cucuteños made a call to the President of the Republic and the director of Inpec recognizing the threats against the official by transnational gangs responsible for various crimes such as homicides, extortion and kidnapping.
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The director of the Cúcuta prison has denounced that he received intimidating pamphlets apparently from the same inmates, threatening him and telling him to face the consequences.
The official must deliver the armored vehicle and will receive a private car, in the midst of the serious security problems facing the city.
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In this penitentiary center they are held members of transnational gangs such as “La Línea”, “El Carro Rojo”, “Los AK47” and guerrilla groups such as dissidents of the FARC and the ELN.
So far this year, 20 Inpec officials in Cúcuta have received death threats by various criminal gangs, in the last six months two dragoneantes from the Cúcuta prison were murdered.
The last homicide was recorded on the night of January 31 This year, in a hitman attack, 40-year-old dragooner Carlos Andrés Sandoval was murdered. According to police information, two men shot him several times when he was enjoying a moment of rest with his family.
Later, a video was known through social networks in which they threaten the officials of the penitentiary center, this was recorded by a Venezuelan transnational criminal group that calls themselves “the red car gang”who warn with automatic weapons of the murderous actions they will take against the Inpec guards who insist on exercising controls in the detention centers.
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