police and soldiers’ faces killed in 2025

Since last April 5, when José Miguel Demoya Hernández was discharged, aka Chirimoya, right hand of the number one of the ‘Gulf Clan’, ‘Chiquito Malo’, A wave of violence against the Public force was unleashed, in which price of the uniformed was placed under the so -called ‘gun plan’.

In three weeks, 27 uniformed have been killed, many of them when they were not service, mainly in the departments of Antioquia, Bolívar and Córdoba. Those responsible for these selective homicides, according to the investigations of the authorities, are, in the Caribbean region, the ‘Gulf Clan’, and in the interior of the country, the ELN and the dissidents of the FARC.

Although from the presidency they carry this count, In the public force the figure is 22not to mention those who died in an attack by the ‘Jorge Suárez Briceño’ block in Guaviare.

“The ‘Gulf Clan’, in response to the fall of several of his bosses, has decided to kill children of the people. He has 27 police and military killed under gun plan. It is a systematic murder of children of the people. We are not going to go back, we will wake the offensive against ‘El Clan’, ”President Gustavo Petro published in his X account, along with the names of the victims.

In parallel, Police, Army and Prosecutor’s Office advance in operations to capture material authors and brains behind this criminal planwhich reminds the one established by the Medellín poster three decades ago, in the darkest years of the war against drug trafficking, when the infamous Capo Pablo Escobar paid considerable sums of money to the hitmen for each murdered police.

They killed her with only 25 years of life in Simití

On November 30, 2001, in Zulia, Norte de Santander, Belén Karina Durán Ortiz arrived in the world. As a child, while growing between the hills and the La Ye of Shipyards, he had the willingness to protect people. Thus, at 18, after a life marked by the sacrifice and the desire to serve, he decided to join the National Police.

Not six years passed since entry to the institution and did not even reach 25, because on April 28, 2025 he lost his life in a routine operation in Simití, Magdalena Medio. When she and her two quadrant companions, Edwin Agustín Feria Mercado and Javier Escorcia Torres, arrived at the station, were attacked by men armed with rifles who arrived by boat by the Ciénaga and landed in the Chambacú sector. Everything was premeditated. Belén and Edwin died, while Javier recovers from his wounds in a health center.

The director of the National Police of Colombia, Brigadier General Carlos Fernando Triana Beltrán, announced a reward of 200 million pesos for those who will provide information to find the material authors of this crime that dismayed Colombia. In addition, he described crime at the time as an act of barbarism and as a desperate strategy of armed groups after the last blows granted by the public force to their leaders. Desperate strategy or not, Bethlehem will not step on his native Zulia, where he was buried by his countrymen, his workmates, his friends and his family.

A Black Hawk helicopter flew over the city during the funeral procession, while the streets of the municipality were filled with people who accompanied the young patrol on their last trip. The coffin advanced to the church and, from there, towards its grave, located in the Las Piedras cemetery, where its remains were buried in the middle of the mariachis song that Bethlehem liked Bethlehem so much.

Soldier kidnapped and murdered on good Friday

They were behind him. That is what they say, in the town of La Vega, who knew the professional soldier Luis Carlos Galíndez Salamanca, son of Doña Aura and Don Daniel, killed last Good Friday. In the last decade, since the 34 -year -old uniformed was in the army, 14 years ago, he took advantage of his parents every time he could. He had been fighting the uprisings in arms as part of the command of Brigade 29, of the third division in Popayán. Although among the residents it was around the version of the declared death sentence of illegal groups against every member of the Military Forces in that area of ​​the heart of the Colombian massif, Salamanca soldier went to his region for the love of his family.

I was happy because he had requested a license to enjoy a break with his own in those days of the major week and was well dressed, since they were the older days. But when he departed that night with friends at the commercial establishment of Doña Carmenza, on the El Roble village, strangers in armored vans arrived by him. The witnesses were paralyzed by fear. No one could do anything to the weapons they carried. No one learned about him again, but the news about his kidnapping was extended rapidly by the Albania district of the same municipality of La Vega, where the soldier was a native.

A few hours after plagiarism, the population confirmed what was most feared, their lifeless body was found in a place in the region. He was tied and his body had gunshot wounds. The finding was made by the same community, which maintained the scene intact and protected the remains until the arrival of a military patrol after midnight.

Juan Carlos Gañán, excommanting of the Popayán Fire Department, still shows the pain for the loss of his friend, whom he described as a man who watched for the welfare of his mother and his dad.

“We deeply regret this irreparable loss and express our most sincere condolences to family members and relatives of the soldier”they reported from the army after the discovery of their body in the middle of the mountains that saw him born.

Lasted 10 days fighting for his life and lost the battle

The last thing the eyes of the subintendent Robinson de Jesús Acevedo Castrillón were the white walls of the hospital where he clung to life as much as he could, not the green mountains of his native San Roque, in Antioquia. The beginning of the end of his life happened at 9:40 p.m. on Sunday, April 20, when a police patrol headed by Acevedo received the report of an alleged shooting inside a commercial establishment of the municipality of Remedios. Upon arriving at the place, in the El Ahogado neighborhood, the uniformed were approached by subjects on a motorcycle.

The individuals approached the patrol in which the subintendent and a patrol car mobilized. There, without a word, the hitmen shot them on multiple opportunities and fled. Some of the shots hit Acevedo’s humanity. One of these, in the head.

With a series of serious injuries, he was transferred to a health center in the region, from where, following the importance of injuries, he was sent to the Pablo Castrillón Uribe Hospital in Medellín. The days passed and Acevedo, recognized for being the son of the president of the Community Action Board of San Isidoro, did not present notable improvement signs. His condition continued to be serious.

Since Monday, April 21, he was under medical observation at the Hospital of the capital of Antioquia, where he even received the visit of Governor Andrés Julián Rendón, who announced that those involved were identified as Alias ​​’Carrillo’ and aka ‘Matías’. Time investigated and established that this second, who is also known as Alias ​​’Chuzo’, registered in the database of the Antioquia Police as demobilized.

Despite the efforts of the doctors, on Wednesday, April 30, after ten days boarding school, in the afternoon the death of the Subintendent was confirmed.

His family lost him in an explosion in Huila

On the sidewalk La Monta, in Urrao, everyone remembers it as a restless, dreamer, creative, healthy, in love with the bicycles and who based on an effort became bachelor with good grades. This was for his family Andrés Felipe Cossio Varela, the 29 -year -old professional soldier who died more than 50 days ago for activation, at the hands of FARC dissidentsof an explosive armed with cable and battery, and controlled through a cell phone.

His brother Alexander was the first to receive the sad news of the murder, in events that happened on March 7 on the sidewalk El Bosque, municipality of Algeciras, Huila. That day there were prolonged fighting, so three of their companions were lost in the mountainous area. He joined the search work.

“The day of the search for lost soldiers, my brother was a pointer of the group and, suddenly, it resulted in serious injuries in the midst of an explosion for a load activated and directed from a cell phone,” said Alexander, who added that The subversive groups assemble these types of mines with drums, cables, gunpowder, nails, screws, staples and shrapnel to “destroy and eliminate their adversaries.”

After the explosion, there was an arduous combat that prevented the body from being recovered quickly. “The left side of my brother’s body presented serious injuries. The left foot and hand, along with the face, were destroyed,” he recalled.

Days before that terrorist action that ended his life, Andrés Felipe spoke on a cell phone with his parents and his brother, who told him that “the security situation in the municipalities of Huila had complicated.”

With pain, anger and anxiety, the professional soldier was buried in the municipality’s cemetery by his parents, Luis Enrique Cossio and Doraralba Varela, who spend the days plunged into sadness. His brother, in a broken voice, said that Andrés Felipe was the youngest of the family and that his parents were a humble housewife and a day laborer who took his family forward at work and sacrifice. “Andrés Felipe dreamed of studying, working, saving and being someone in this life to help our parents,” he concluded.

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