06/15/2024
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) admitted Javier Alfredo Valle Anaya into the transitional justice systemwho was regional deputy director of the defunct Administrative Department of Security (DAS) in Santa Marta, Magdalena.
Valle was sentenced in 2017 to 40 years in prison in the ordinary justice system. for having participated in the murder of the sociologist, university professor and trade unionist Alfredo Correa de Andráis and his bodyguard, Edelberto Ochoa Martínez, in 2004.
The former deputy director presented to the Jurisdiction a “Clear, Concrete and Programmed Commitment”, a mechanism with which various actors in the armed conflict They tell the JEP that they want to submit in exchange for delivering truth or goods.
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The Chamber for Defining Legal Situations evaluated the Commitment and, although considered his contributions to the truth very general and “without greater descriptive richness,” He asserted that they have the potential to be key in the description of macrocriminality patterns.
That is, for the Chamber, What Valle said could “positively impact” the investigation into the collusion of state agents with paramilitary groups, especially to persecute social leaders based on false accusations.
Alfredo Rafael Francisco Correa de Andráis was, in addition to being a professor, a member of the Union Association of Professors at the Simón Bolívar University (Asoprosimbol). In 2004 he was accused by the State, with lies, of collaborating with the now extinct FARC.
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At that time the DAS, headed by Jorge Noguera, prepared lists of people whom it accused of allegedly supporting the guerrilla. The profiled people were then murdered by paramilitaries from the Northern Block under the auspices of the Public Force.
Javier Valle, as he was part of that network, could provide information of interest for macrocase 08with which the JEP’s Truth Recognition Chamber investigates crimes committed by the State in association with paramilitarism.
Although the JEP admitted Valle Anaya into its ranks, it did not grant him the benefit of “transitional, conditional and anticipated” freedom.. The condition for his release in the future is that he expands his truth and offers “acceptable” guarantees for the victims.
The former DAS director had been in the United States since 2005. In 2018, after his conviction, North American immigration authorities captured him. His deportation to Colombia took place in 2002, and he has remained in prison since then.
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