New version about disappearance of four neighbors of Lucho Herrera

A few days ago The journalist Omar Alejandro Hernández de news one revealed the existence of a judicial sentence against a paramilitary that compuls copies so that ‘Lucho’ HerreraGlory of Colombian cycling, be investigated as the alleged perpetrator of the crimes of aggravated forced disappearance and aggravated homicide of four neighbors in Fusagasugá.

The judicial decision is based on the testimony of three paramilitaries that involve Lucho Herrera in the disappearance and murder of four people: Gonzalo Guerrero Jiménez, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Martínez, José del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez and Diuviseldo Torres Vega.

The accusations appear in the anticipated judgment of one of the paramilitaries called Luis Fernando Gómez Flórez, aka ‘Ojitos’, who was a member of the so -called Casanare Peasant Self -Defensewhose action reached Fusagasugá, the homeland of Lucho Herrera.

Alias ​​’Ojitos’ says that paramilitaries went to visit Lucho Herrera to ask for an economic contribution And that he asked to go see directly Martín Llanoshead of the criminal group. That is why they took him to the hamlet of El Tropezón, in the goal.

According to the testimony of the paramilitary, after the meeting Martín Llanos gave the order to help Lucho Herrera, who “Coming from goalhe tells us that he has to send to clean those peoplethat he was a militia of the guerrillas, but that anything we understood with a man named Rafael, I do not know if he is the brother or familiar, as in 8 days Mr. Rafael calls me and I go up to the farm of Silvania up, he arrived at the farm, he is large of red roof, and he serves me Mr. Lucho Herrera, offers me something to drink, it gives me a bottle of water, and it tells me And it gives me two envelopes from Manila, in one of them came the photos of 4 people, that we had to collect, he said that he was the guerrillas who were kidnapped and on the other there were $ 40,000,000 and tells us that if he wants to buy some guns and motorcycles. Those people bordered on his farm, were small farms that bordered his farm ”

Another paramilitary, Óscar Andrés Huertas Sarmiento, aka of ‘Genuence’, said before the Prosecutor’s Office:

“We picked up to these people in a Toyota Hilux van 4 doors of Plato beige (…) We went with Sergeant Fredy Espitia, of Fusa’s B2, Camargo, Hector Diaz, Gaitan, it was the commander, bad shadow, Carlos Marin Castañeda, Tribilin, Antonio Arias, which is tribilin or mono flat and me, We collected 2 in a site and the other two in different parts, we used DAS badges, with vests and caps, they were about 6 and 7 at night. We put 2 in Plato and 2 in the front”

The name of Fredy Espitia Espinosa, intelligence agent of the army, appears in another file as an alleged participant in the murder of the agricultural leader Jorge Darío Hoyosand also as a harassor of the human rights lawyer who represented the victim’s family. This crime was executed by the so -called Self -Defense Forces of Casanare, a group to which the three declarants belong.

Another of them is Héctor Díaz Gaitán, aka ‘Camargo’who says he met with Lucho Herrera and his brother Rafael Herrera to organize the crime:

“He was only with me once in the asadero the rod of the road from Fusa to Silvania And once I was on his farm located in La Aguadita to speak with Rafael, to organize the facts of the disappearance of those people. They have a shed and cows, it is a farm on the left. ”

A group of Prosecutor’s Forens He advances exploration and exhumation work in the Silvania area, Cundinamarca, where the cyclist’s neighbors were buried according to the paramilitaries, as the grooves declared it:

“Let them go to La Aguadita’s novilleros on a farm on the edge of the road. We slaughtered them and then dismembered them, with machete. We made 2 graves, two small holes, around 50×50 at chest height, out there 1.50 meters. Matches in 6 pieces, head, arms, legs and trunk “

when we resumed the news information one, we invited Andrés Rodríguez, who was barely13 years old when he witnessed that armed men took his uncle Diuviseldo Torres, one of the four missing.

Andrés said he would wait for the result of the investigations, that his family never had problems with Lucho Herrerathat some of them worked occasionally on the cyclist’s farm and that he never knew that there was a fight in buying the small properties of the neighbors who added failed to be a busy land.

Today, in the Colonell report was the Lord Óscar Rodríguez, brother of Andrés and nephew of the missing Diuviseldo Torres. He is the mayor of the National Police and has kindly agreed to talk to us about these painful facts.

Lucho Herrera issued a statement in which he declares himself innocent for these facts and expresses his decision to collaborate with judicial investigations. Bonus track

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I want to fully reiterate the content of the Colonell report on the session of the Constitutional cut in which the declaration of internal shock for the situation of the catatumbo was partially declared.

The facts narrated here were duly verified before the publication.

I have the greatest respect for the work of the Constitutional cut But their magistrates and magistrates cannot pretend to give up the press so that he does not report their deliberations, using a statement to disqualify and dismiss journalistic research about their decisions.

The duty of the reservation on their sessions is them, mine as journalist It consists of publishing information of public interest, as in this case.