JEP granted parole to one of the recruiters of the 'False Positives' in Norte de Santander

On Wednesday, the JEP granted parole benefit to Alexander Carretero Díaz, who was prosecuted by the ordinary courts and sentenced to 44 years in prison for having a direct involvement in the so-called 'False Positives', which were the murders of civilians committed by Colombian Army soldiers to to pass them off as guerrillas killed in combat in order to obtain days off, promotions and financial compensation.

On the La W Radio station, they reported that Carretero Díaz recruited, under false promises of work, young people who later finished their uniforms to make them pass as casualties of the subversives in Norte de Santander. The convicted person is responsible for 23 homicides of civilians.

“The speaker took on the task of identifying and transferring people so that they could be presented as casualties in combat. On some occasions, he even actively intervened in the detention of some victims, sometimes for one or more days,” they quoted from their judicial file.

According to the peace court, Carretero Díaz provided crucial information to uncover this criminal practice in that department in the northeastern part of the country and also served several years of sentence, allowing him to obtain his freedom. He also ratted on the military involved and fully accepted their responsibility in this criminal practice of which the JEP estimates that there are 6,402 victims throughout Colombia.

On the radio they recalled that this decision of the JEP was also taken because Carretero Díaz had instituted a guardianship because without giving any explanation the Definition Chamber had not decided on his request for freedom.

Now whoever was one of the recruiters of young people for the 'False Positives', once the JEP resolution is implemented, will be able to leave his place of confinement in Cucuta.

JEP accepted the submission of Colonel Hernando Pérez Molina

Hernando Pérez Molina was commander of the Third Brigade and then the Third Division of the Army and is investigated for at least 17 cases of unlawful deaths presented as combat casualties, known as false positives, of which he would have been aware of and even allegedly promoted during his command.

The retired colonel submitted his request for submission to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) since September 2021, and was answered in recent days by the Room for the Definition of Legal Situations to assume the investigation of his proceedings, in addition to having been mentioned by several Army speakers.

Despite this situation, Pérez Molina, according to the W Radio station, presented himself as innocent and handed a document of contribution to the truth that did not fully convince the judge of the Chamber, Sandra Jeannette Castro, who asked him to provide a document with a more comprehensive contribution in the next 10 days.

The Chamber held that the name of the general has been mentioned in two 'false positives' files, in addition to those appearing in that case in the JEP, for executions of civilians in the departments of Cauca, Valle del Cauca and Caldas. There are at least 17 victims who could be related to Pérez Molina, whose perpetrators were members of the Infantry Battalion No. 23 Victores and Battalion No. 57 Martyrs de Puerres, who at that time were following his orders.

“Allegedly (Pérez Molina) not only encouraged the practice of such unlawful conduct, but also had prior or later knowledge of the circumstances in which they would be executed or how they were covered up, which led to preliminary investigations being initiated against them by the Prosecutors,” quoted the newspaper El Espectador of the submission document.

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