The investigation continues around one of the most disturbing cases that are relating to the famous Colombian exciclist Lucho Herrera: the disappearance and murder of four neighbors of former Colombian deportist Lucho Herrera, who for decades has been an idol of national sport.
The increasingly serious accusations come from condemned exparamilitaries and now key witnesses in a judicial process that compuls copies so that Herrera is investigated for the alleged crimes of aggravated forced disappearance and aggravated homicide.
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According to a count that published W Radio On the case, the story was initially revealed by the journalist Omar Alejandro Hernández de News one.
From there, journalists such as Daniel Coronell are taking up the case from testimonies of people close to the victims of collective homicide.
In your space The Colonell report, The investigative journalist knew the anticipated sentence of Luis Fernando Gómez Flórez, aka Ojitos, former member of the Cupsinas del Casanare, who directly pointed to the exciclista as a participant in the crimes.
However, a new testimony came to the conversation, that of Andrés Rodríguez, who being just a 3 -year -old boy, witnessed his uncle’s disappearance.
As published by the media, The young man remembers having seen armed men enter his house and take Diuviseldo Torres. The family, he says, lived “in silence and fear” for decades.
The testimony was known by Coronell and has not been published. However, the journalist commented:
“Andrés said he would expect the result of the investigations, that his family never had problems with the cyclist, he added that some of them occasionally worked on the cyclist’s farm and that ever knew that there was a fight in buying the small properties of the neighbors who added fane to be a busy land”, Were Coronell’s words.
In the same way, Andrés Rodríguez, Óscar Rodríguez, spoke in the program, who is also the nephew of the mortal victim. The interviewee is the mayor of the Police and agreed to give his testimony.
“My uncle was a worker. Lucho Herrera had several farms there in the Piedmonte village sector, via La Aguadita and because my grandfather also worked with Lucho Herrera dad, Don Rafael, and my uncles also worked on those coffee farms, even inclusive, we were going to take coffee in those farms.”
On the alleged interest of the exciclista to buy the property of his family, who was neighboring the estate of Herrera, the victim’s nephew commented that “the truth, that case is very complex to try”, and expressed that justice in Colombia is based on the probative material, that they do not have it in their hands, in addition, because “Lucho could not buy those lands.”
Instead, he said that the case would have to see “more with the kidnapping that happened with Lucho Herrera, where the FARC asked him 4,000 million pesos, as one of the guerrillas members also says and then Lucho, in the company of his brother, in his desire for revenge, what they did was bring that paramilitary group from the eastern plains – where Mr. Rafael Herrera has a farm – to do justice for their own hands, blaming totally innocent people”
He added that it is necessary to consider that “my uncle blamed the other people to belong to the FARC, when we ourselves, the whole family, we are displaced from violence.”
The relatives expressed that they ask for “that the truth is known. We had no conflict with Mr. Lucho Herrera. Some relatives worked on their farm. We did not know of any interest in buying those lands, which did not even add a faneada.”
The four victims were identified as Gonzalo Guerrero Jiménez, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Martínez, José del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez and Diuviseldo Torres Vega.
