Tortured and thrown out of an abyss: the family fight that ended in a criminal alliance in Nariño

The events took place in the village of El Rincón, in the municipality of El Rosario in the department of Nariño in southern Colombia, where a family dispute was allegedly resolved by a criminal gang that was hired by one of those involved to torture his own cousin.

According to the Attorney General's Office, the situation occurred in 2007 but until now the prosecution of who would be responsible has been achieved, who was sheltered with an assurance measure that must be carried out in a prison center.

The captured man allegedly blamed a cousin for beating his daughter, but he never acknowledged him. Despite the insistence, he denied any fact, so the girl's father would have sought to extract his testimony through torture.

The investigating body maintains that the man contacted a subject identified as alias Raúl, who would be head of a criminal structure in the department, who requested his intermediation in the family dispute.

The leader placed several members of the armed group at his service, who reportedly accompanied him to retain the person suspected of the assault against his daughter. They gagged him and transferred him to a sector known as El Matadero.

There, the person who is considered a victim by the Public Prosecutor's Office, was reportedly tortured. While he was reduced, he was intimidated with rifles, beaten and even thrown out of an abyss. In the fall, he suffered multiple fractures in his legs and hands.

Not happy, the criminals and the captured subject imposed on him a quota of money that he had to give them and gave him a deadline to admit to beating the woman, daughter of the now captured. However, despite all the threats, the victim did not accept it and had to leave the region with his family because of the intimidations.

“In that sense, the person who sought unlawful support from the criminal organization was captured in Popayán (Cauca). A prosecutor from the Specialized Directorate against Human Rights Violations brought her before a guarantee judge and charged her with the crimes of torture and forced displacement,” said the prosecutor.

Because of this accusation, the judge of assurances legalized the arrest and imposed a security measure in prison on the man captured by the Prosecutor's Office, while investigations are proceeding to determine his guilt in the facts.

During this weekend, the Prosecutor's Office also reported on the extradition of Mario Mauricio Morán Guerrero, alias Camilo 40, who is accused not only of drug trafficking, but also of murders and displacements of social leaders.

'Camilo 40' is identified as one of the main leaders of the Los Contadores gang, from which he would have coordinated the shipment of several tons of cocaine hydrochloride through the Colombian Pacific to Central America and the United States.

Morán Guerrero is required by the Court of the Eastern District of the State of Texas to answer for transnational drug trafficking. He is imprisoned in La Picota prison, after being captured in Tulua, Valle del Cauca, in September 2021, and has already been notified of his extradition. It remains to coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make the transfer to prison effective in North America.

He was linked by the Prosecutor's Office in the trial for the murder of the social leader and indigenous governor, Rodrigo Salazar Quiñones, on July 9, 2020, in Tumaco (Nariño). Likewise, threats and other serious effects were attributed to it against human rights defenders, peasant organizations and reinstated people in the south of the country.

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