The governor of Nariño, Luis Alfonso Escobar, asked the national government to install modern equipment and security cameras that allow the identification and verification of the background of those who enter the department through the Pan-American highway, in the area of the Puerto Remolino district, after the latest events that left three people dead and nine more injured after unknown persons activated a car bomb against the substation of police of that town of Nariño.
Escobar told Blu Radio that these security measures are part of the five strategies that were agreed upon in the last security council, where it was also requested that the families of the people who unfortunately lost their lives and those injured be immediately sheltered in the Law of Victims of the Conflict Armed.
“We condemn and reject this fact and ask the illegal armed actors to remove the population in the middle of the conflict and that the hostilities stop now against the community,” said Escobar, visibly affected by this incident, one of the most serious that has been recorded in this part of Nariño in the last five years.
The sectional leader assured that the authorities are investigating who were the authors of this execrable crime of the police assistant, a merchant and a resident of Puerto Remolinoand said that there must be speed in the investigations by the Attorney General’s Office.
He asked the police authorities and state intelligence agencies to increase intelligence in the region to avoid new events such as what happened on Friday afternoon in this part of northern Nariño.
The head of the sectional administration explained that requested an increase in the foot of force, especially in the mountain range sector, of both the Army and the Police, to restore tranquility and order in this part of northern Nariño.
He insisted that no hypothesis is going to be ruled out and assured that the complaints made by the community of the municipalities of the mountain range and the northwest of Nariño about the appearance of an intimidating pamphlet from a group that supposedly calls itself the United Self-Defense Forces of Nariño.
“The inhabitants of that area of Nariño are very scared and we cannot allow the anxiety and uncertainty to continue in the region,” said Escobar, who assured that it is necessary to move forward in the search for mechanisms that allow illegal armed actors and the national government to resume dialogue to avoid more deaths of innocent people like what happened in Puerto Remolino in the north of the department.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Puerto Remolino community, who asked that his identity not be revealed, told Blu Radio that this pamphlet from the supposed United Self-Defense Forces of Nariño has been circulating for several days before the explosion of the car bomb and that the communities asked the authorities to investigate whether the apparent alliance of some members of the public force with armed groups is true or not. illegals that would be operating in municipalities of the mountain range and northwest of Nariño.
