The JEP granted Amnesty to Simón Trinidad, former member of the FARC, for the crime of rebellion

The special jurisdiction for peace granted him the amnesty of law (or of iure), a judicial forgiveness for the crimes of rebellion and damage to the well -outside of Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, aka ‘Simón Trinidad’ former member of the old FARC, in 20 processes studied by the amnesty or pardon room and that the appearing party had in progress in ordinary justice.

Rebellion and damage to others are behaviors to which you can Apply iure amnesty as they are political or related crimes to political crimeas indicated in Law 1820 of 2016 and in the Statutory Law of the JEP, in accordance with the provisions of the Final Peace Agreement.

These are five processes in which Simón Trinidad was convicted or accused of ordinary justice and another 15 in which there was no conviction or accusation.

As for five other processes in which Simón Trinidad is linked, a more detailed analysis of the amnesty or pardon room is required and they go to an instance of very rigorous evaluation and contrast in which several or all the magistrates of the room participate, and also has the participation of victims, To determine if the behaviors in these facts are likely to grant the amnesty or if, on the contrary, it is determined that it must be sent to the Recognition Room of Truth to link it to any of the macrocasy than the give investigaconsidering it as possible responsible. It can also be sent to the Room of Definition of Legal Situations if it is considered to be not responsible.

Among those five facts that pThey will roast for the magistrates magistrates and find the kidnapping and murder of the former Minister of Culture Consuelo Araújo Noguera, committed in September 2001.

The other fact that is linked Simón Trinidad, And that will go through this rigorous analysis is the Bojayá massacre, committed in May 2002.

Alias Simón Trinidad He was extradited to the United States on December 31, 2004. Currently, he is deprived of liberty in the administrative penitentiary of maximum security of Florence, Colorado, where he pays a 60 -year prison sentence for the kidnapping of three Americans, committed in February 2003.

Regarding the Freedom of the formerFARCthis resolution has no faculty to modify its Current status in American justice. However, the arrest warrants that exist against them for these processes are left without effect as guarantee in case it came to Colombia.