Warning for possible gun plan against police and military officers in Colombia

Eight soldiers were killed last week in the country, six of them in Frontino, Antioquia, and, on April 18, the death by sniper attack of Army Captain Aldrey Bonilla Rocha was reported. Events that have put the authorities on alert.

According to Caracol Radio, in Norte de Santander, where the fact has already been announced by pamphlets, the authorities are on high alert for a pistol plan that seeks to attack the department's military and police officers.

Through a pamphlet signed by the self-described Gaitanistas Self-Defense Forces of Colombia AGC that was released in Barrancabermeja last week, a gun plan against the inhabitants and authorities of the department was announced.

The document, denounced by social organizations, establishes drug dealers, criminals, migrant population, as well as members of the Police as a “military objective”. They even point out members of the STI and the security forces with their own names.

The driver got out of the vehicle and when he got back on board, two young men on a motorcycle shot him twice. The uniformed man would not have managed to close the door, but the bullets hit there and everyone was unharmed. The attackers were captured moments later in a padlock plan and by security videos.

They were two young people, 19 and 22 years old respectively, one of them unemployed and the other working as a palm tree, as reported by Blu Radio, but they would not have criminal records. Now they will be charged with attempted murder.

The authorities say that it may be common crime and not a pistol plan, but the hypothesis remains.

On April 21, patrolman Francisco Javier Pacheco Orellano was killed in the municipality of Zambrano, in the department of Bolívar. The events took place at kilometer 1 of the road that connects Carmen de Bolívar with that municipality. Precisely there he was approached by four subjects who were mobilizing on motorcycles carrying a rifle and pistol, who opened fire on the public forces, managing to hit the uniformed man five times.

The Police offered 120 million pesos for information leading to the identification of those responsible. “The security situation in the whole country is really delicate, we know that there is a gun plan against all policemen,” Bolivar Governor Vicente Blel told the Alerta Caribe radio station.

The authorities argue that several of these events would be in response to the operations and beatings that the security forces have inflicted against criminal organizations, a kind of retaliation that in some places could be shaped into a declared pistol plan.

According to the newspaper El Tiempo, this is how the Gulf Clan has responded in some areas of the country against the public forces, following operations, such as the attack with explosives in Frontino that left seven soldiers dead. So far this year, 30 army soldiers have died, one in three attributed to that criminal organization.

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