Police found houses of torture and 'pique' that relate to the discovery of bodies in the center of Bogotá

The Criminal Investigation Section (Sijín) of the Bogotá Police revealed to Semana magazine some details of the investigations they have been carrying out into the findings of bodies abandoned in the public space in the center of the Colombian capital and some of its locations over the past month.

According to the authorities, the crimes were committed in the so-called 'massage houses' where the microtrafficking mafias in the city take their victims to torture them and subsequently murder them in what would be a war for the rearrangement of the criminal structures that dominate this illicit business in the city.

One of the places where these macabre sites are located would be the so-called 'cuadra de la muerte' in the San Bernardo neighborhood, which is among farms that are in the process of extinction of dominion, since there used to be the drug stores, also known as' ollas', of that once traditional sector, and which were dismantled in the mayor's office of Enrique Peñalosa, reported in that media outlet.

But there would be more of these places in the neighboring sectors of La Favorita and Cinco Huecos, which are paradoxically meters away from the Bogotá Mayor's Office and the headquarters of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police. The authorities also indicated in Semana that torture sites would be camouflaged among the pagadiaries, where homeless and addicted to psychoactive people often go in that sector of the city to spend the night for up to 5,000 pesos.

To these places they take people on whom the mafias in the area are going to take revenge, with methods that instill terror such as torture and dismemberment. Then the executioners of organized crime pay street dwellers to take the human remains and throw them away with the garbage.

The investigators explained in Semana that in these aberrant practices, criminals have established schedules for the transfer of human remains and they have logistics in which men who travel on bicycles carry out an advance to verify that there are no police officers.

All this happens, as they cited in that publication, because the structures that sell narcotics are being reorganized for the distribution of drugs in the towns of the city. They even use the hypothesis that some criminals who arrived from Venezuela are rebelling against their Colombian bosses to dominate the business, which has led to these murders with brutality.

The findings

There are 10 cases that dismayed the authorities of the Capital District, after reports from the Bogotá Metropolitan Police revealed complaints of citizens who ran into the victims, as if they were ill-disposed waste in the public space.

Although the authorities initially suspected only four cases, having passed 21 days in April, these systematic deaths are of concern to the community.

On Saturday, April 2, in the towns of San Cristobal and Usme, two bodies were found in a wooded area. Both deceased were approximately 25 years old and were found with obvious gunshot wounds on their skulls. According to a police hypothesis, the double homicide would have been committed days ago.

However, on April 12 in Plaza España, in the town of Los Mártires, a street dweller alerted the security forces to the presence of two black garbage bags that also contained bodies: the first of them, mutilated and with stab wounds, and the second with bullet wounds .

With signs of torture, tied hands and feet and packed in plastic bags, these bodies were the sign that possibly the first two cases were not isolated cases.

According to the newspaper El Tiempo, the first versions of these crude murders indicate that they could be cases of settling accounts in the control of the microtrafficking business in different areas of the capital.

However, Colonel Ernesto Goyes, an inspection officer of the Bogotá Police, has not yet been able to establish that there is a criminal pattern among the killings, despite the fact that there are coincidences in the way in which the persons in question were killed.

The dismay does not end there, because in the middle of Holy Week and until Wednesday, April 20, six more bodies appeared, located between the towns of San Cristobal, Teusaquillo, Usme, Engativa and Kennedy, as waste wrapped in black garbage bags. All these corpses appeared with their throats cut.

The Secretary of Security of Bogotá, Aníbal Fernández de Soto, spoke about the security problem that this case is becoming and said that the secretariat will prioritize the investigation and intervention of criminal gangs and microtrafficking networks that operate in the city with rewards that allow them to witnesses to these events report more homicides.

At 10:30 a.m. on Holy Thursday (April 14), on 26th Street with Carrera 30, the body of a man was abandoned in a black bag and this action was witnessed by the commander of the Teusaquillo locality station, Colonel Sandra Lancheros, who said that the body was tied on its feet and hands with signs of torture:

That body was brought from another locality, the closest one being Los Martyrs. The Sijin is investigating whether that was the place where the murder took place

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