During the Eucharist held in Ibagué in honor of the public force, the commander of the Police Department Tolima, Colonel Libardo Fabio Ojeda Eraso, confirmed that one of the injured police officers in the attack registered in Melgar was paraplegic.
This is the patrolman Andrés Felipe Navarro, who suffered a serious column injury after the armed attack on Tuesday, April 29.
That day, a Sijin patrol was ambushed in the El Balso sector, four uniformed men.
Subsequently, the authorities captured alias ‘Junior’, alleged member of the criminal group ‘Los 80’, dedicated to microtrafficking in this area of Tolima.
“Unfortunately one of them will be paraplegic. That is the recognition made by the government of Tolima to its police and military and also to the police and military that we continue working for the homeland, who dedicate our life for their safety,” said Ojeda.
He added: “Yes, the Navarrese patrolman plastime suffered a wound in his column and the report of the doctors is that the wound is irreversible.”
Given these facts, the colonel also valued the institutional support and spiritual accompaniment they received at the ceremony.
Colonel Ojeda also lamented the recent murder of a policeman in Flanders, who was attacked while he was on vacation.
Finally, he insisted that, despite the pain, the institution remains firm in its work to guarantee the security of citizenship.
