The commander of the Antioquia Police, Colonel Óscar Mauricio Rico, informed that the Gulf clan would be offering up to 3 million pesos to its members to threaten uniformed in the department, facts that have already claimed the lives of three police officers and left almost 20 injured from April 15 to date.
“There is an offer of money by these criminal structures to attempt against our uniformed, for amounts that range between 2 million and 3 million pesos, Among other offers, ”explained the senior officer.
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For these facts, the Secretary of Security of Antioquia, General (R) Luis Eduardo Martínez, said that the police throughout the department are warned to extreme security measures. The situation worries because Between April 15 and 22 there are 10 attacks against the Public Force, which have left at least 20 members of the public force injured, one of them a regular soldier; as well as three murdered police. In addition, in the events they have been injured.
The uniformed men were the Subintendent Deimer Díaz, on Tuesday, April 15 in Carepa, Urabá, in the midst of the activation of explosives. Subintendent Nelson Humberto Cárdenas Montoya, on Wednesday, April 16, in another attack with Explosives in Salgar, Southwest, which also left another wounded uniformed. And patrolman Jorge Luis García, on Saturday, April 19, in Chigorodó, also in Urabá.
Among the facts that have been injured are three police officers in an explosive attack on a patrol on Wednesday, April 16, in San Pedro de los Milagros, North; A soldier injured on Sunday, April 20, in Murindó, Urabá, also in an attack with explosives; Two injured police officers in attack on Patrol on Monday, April 21, in Remedios, Northeast; And four more in another armed attack in Uramita, the West, also that Monday.
In addition, This Tuesday three attacks were presented. The first, an explosive attack on an ebéjico, West, against a patrol in which two uniformed men who were injured were mobilized. And in the main park of Vegachí, Northeast, another policeman was shot by men who mobilized by motorcycle; While in the catfish, under Cauca, a patrol was attacked with rifle bursts and an improvised explosive artifact, which left another injured uniformed.
Secretary Martínez said that the attacks have been increasing since last week against the police as a retaliation of the Gulf clan, because a few days ago they discharged alias Chirimoya, one of the important members of the armed group in Lower Cauca.
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