Prosecutor's Office calls on the JEP to investigate the relationship of State agents with the FARC

Recently, a document from the Office of the Attorney-General of the Nation arrived at the offices of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP). Among the 24 pages that make up the report of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Public Prosecutor's Office asked the JEP to investigate the links between state agents and third civilians with the former FARC guerrillas.

In the document known to W Radio, the attorney delegate to the JEP raised her requests and observations regarding the new macro-cases that will soon be opened by this court. Regarding the line of investigation and relationship between public officials and former guerrillas, he explained that “just as we seek to investigate and judge this collusion, cooperation and alliances that occurred between members of the security forces with third parties and with State agents not members of the security forces, the same should be done with the FARC”, says the document.

This request by the Office of the Procurator is made within the framework of the opening of new macro-cases by the JEP, “these will be national in scope, organized according to the different actors and include a multiplicity of criminal conduct, in order to cover all macro-criminal patterns of the armed conflict”, he stated in his moment the peace court.

In the document known to the media, the national entity stated that, “four new macrocases should be opened related to the following victimizing acts: forced displacement, enforced disappearance, crimes of sexual violence, and the use of illegal methods and means of war. The above, in accordance with the principle of centrality of victims and with it, requests made by them and by civil society organizations”, the document reads.

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They also warned the JEP that it is necessary to strengthen its Examination Chamber, which is in charge of investigations. This is in view of the opening of the new macro-cases, warning that if they do not do so and maintain their current personnel infrastructure, it would not adequately cover the new lines of research.

In the same vein, the Office of the Procurator was emphatic that, “the aims pursued with the prioritization of these new macro-cases will not be achieved with the human resources currently available to the Chamber. Therefore, the need for a transformation and adaptation of the Chamber to meet the demands and expectations of justice is reiterated”, he concludes.

In relation to complaints about the lack of security guarantees for victims, the watchdog requested protective measures for 10 persons who reported that they were at risk in their lives or integrity. “That a timely and comprehensive monitoring and implementation process be articulated, in coordination with other authorities and State security agencies, to ensure that these protection measures have a true materialization,” said the delegate procurators.

They also called for the strengthening of differential care for the ethnic and disabled population and for a magnifying glass to be given to allegations of threats by victims, as well as the places where these victims, they claimed that there are remains of missing persons.

Therefore, another of the procurators' requests to the JEP is to provide precautionary measures to the Central Cemetery of Bucaramanga (Santander), the Cartago Cemetery (Valle del Cauca) and the vicinity of the municipalities of Lengupá (Boyacá) and Charalá (Santander), places where bodies of disappeared persons are allegedly found during the armed conflict in Colombia.

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