The mayor of Cali, Alejandro Éder, says that the time has come to ‘bomb the criminal gangs’

The mayor of Cali, Alejandro Éder, guaranteed security in his city for the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP 16)the international meeting that will take place from October 21 to November 1 nearby in the capital of Valle del Cauca.

However, Their concern for public order is in the days before and after the global environmental event.

“Security for COP 16 is guaranteed. We are going to receive 5,000 additional police officers. Cali has 6,000 police officers, General Salamanca already confirmed it to me. The first 100 uniformed officers begin to arrive next week. But today my main concern is security before and after COP 16. During the event it is guaranteed,” said the Cali president from Cartagena, where he is attending the VII Ibero-American Congress of CEAPI, which brings together leaders and businessmen from around the planet, and where the central theme is the growth of companies and nations.

More flight hours for the Air Force
and for Army Aviation

“I recognize that we have received more force with 300 police officers who arrived in January. We also received more than 400 professional soldiers between March and April, 250 are missing, because in February, we had requested 600 professional soldiers for the rural area of ​​Cali and the area rural Jamundí,” said Mayor Éder.

The president points out that His region requires more Army force for the rural area of ​​Cali and for Jamundí.

“We need more flight hours for the Air Force and Army Aviation, and we need to strengthen the intelligence capacity to confront these criminal groups with a terrorist vocation that are generating violent acts practically every week in the south of Valle del Cauca and in the north of Cauca,” he said.

Public order and insecurity are
overdiagnosed in the country

Including the use of bombings that were key to defeating the FARC and bringing them to the negotiating table and demobilizing the threat that these groups

The mayor called on the Petro Government not to limit, according to Éder, the tools that the public force has, legally, to confront and dismantle criminal groups.

“Including the use of bombings that were key to defeating the FARC and bringing them to the negotiating table and demobilizing the threat that these groups pose,” stressed Éder, who demands more public force, more flight hours from the Air Force. and more intelligence capacity to dismantle criminal groups in the rural area of ​​Jamundí and in northern Cauca.

It is just as serious as the sexual enslavement of children and adolescents. The recruitment and use of children and adolescents is an evil that exists in Colombia and that we cannot allow anymore.

“I understand that there are sectors that say that the bombings endanger boys and girls forcibly recruited by these criminals, and it is a consideration that will be taken into account when an operation of this type is carried out, but the underlying question is: “How long are we going to allow criminal groups in Colombia with a terrorist vocation that link children and adolescents to crime?” he said.

And he added: “It is just as serious as the sexual enslavement of children and adolescents. The recruitment and use of children and adolescents is an evil that exists in Colombia and that we cannot allow anymore,” he said.

The official states that the issue of public order and insecurity is overdiagnosed in the country and that the Judicial and military authorities know who makes up and are the leaders of the criminal gangs.

Cali terrorism and it is affecting our citizens, but also civilians in Jamundí in Cauca and in other regions of the country

“We must dismantle them with the forces of the State, with the democratic institutions and with all the tools that the law allows. That is a priority of ours today, because we are seeing Cali terrorism again and it is affecting our citizens, but also civilians in Jamundí in Cauca and in other regions of the country,” he said.

“This is the problem that we face today and we are going to face after the world biodiversity event, and I want to be clear about something: this is a problem for Colombia, this is not just for Cali or the Valley or the southwest of the country. It is a problem for Colombia,” he concluded.

Cartagena