This is how gangs get families out of their homes in a neighborhood of Medellin to create caletas de armas

An illegal group called 'Los Pájaros' is imposing a regime of terror on the community of the Belén Zafra neighborhood in the 16th commune of Belén, as these subjects are intimidating, threatening them and even robbing several families of their homes in order to use them as coves to store weapons. The leaders of the criminal gang would be giving orders and making decisions from jail.

This serious denunciation is made by human rights defenders and the personería of the capital of Antioquia. According to Julio Reginfo, analyst and human rights defender and leader of the Justice to Law Corporation, the “leaders who are being detained, Hugo Pájaro and Juancho Pájaro, continue to commit crimes from prison and give orders to the bandits who are in the territory dispossessing the lowliest, poorest families. They are forced to go to the notary's office to give them their house.”

Hugo Pájaro and Juancho Pájaro, would be the main founders of the band that is committing several crimes in the Belén Zafra neighborhood. According to some accounts, citizens would be afraid to make complaints about possible reprisals against them or their families. 'Los Pájaros' have collected extortion, theft, dispossession of their homes and control the sale of some items from the family basket such as arepas, eggs, panela, potatoes, among others.

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In this neighborhood of the capital of Antioquia, the gang has carried out extortions of all kinds, even to remodel the house, criminals have to be paid, “They have stolen their motorcycles, they take them off and then they charge them if they want to have them again, they charge them up to 1 or 2 million pesos, if they don't have them, they sell the motorcycles and take them to other parts”.

There has been so much fear that this criminal group has generated in the area is the dispossession of buildings, since according to Rengifo's complaint, at least 16 homes have been handed over to criminals for use as coves.

“They force them to go to the notaries so that they give them the signed deeds, in addition, some have their motorcycles and cars, they charge for their vaccines, at this time they already have the method of stealing them and then charge to deliver them, between one or two million,” said Julio Rengifo.

According to citizens, there has been an exponential growth in the sale of hallucinogens in the sector. Even this band would organize parties with DJs and there they would also sell narcotics, these meetings would be attended by minors. According to the human rights defender, in these places “they not only sell, but also manufacture the famous Tuci in Belén Zafra Sucre, in a sector known as Palmitas where a number of young people gather, the vast majority of them minors, where they are encouraged to consume and the first doses are given to them for free”.

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Added to all this is the association of minors to the illegal armed group, since “there are an average of 25 to 28 minors, young people who are in service, birds being used, linked and instrumentalized by the criminal gang in all ways as carts, like jíbaros and who carry drugs from one place to another”.

He added that “the community has often called the police or 123, but we know that it is a fairly complex sector geographically, apart from the fear and anxiety that the community is experiencing, there are no complaints to the competent authorities, because if they denounce they have to go to another neighborhood and because of their poverty and humility they have nothing to deal with to leave for other territories”.

Finally, the complaint states that alias Torrez would be the leader of the El Tanque sector; alias Fofo, Ñoño and Mariogu would be in charge of the Los Alpinos sector, on the other hand alias El Burro, El Carnicero and Los Venecos would be in Monte Negro; Alias La Chinga in La Cancha and Canta Ranas.

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