Police frustrate ELN terrorist plan against station in eastern Cali - Cali - Colombia

Everything indicated that the Eln was going to launch a terrorist plan with an explosive attack against a police station in the east of Cali.

According to the Metropolitan Police, in the Desepaz neighborhood area, in commune 21 and one of the most violent in the city, uniformed officers found hidden explosives, including shrapnel and black powder.

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Apparently, they were going to be detonated on the night of this Wednesday, February 23.

behind the fact would be ‘Chigüiro’, who is the leader of the ‘Ernesto Che Guevara’ front, a group that has influence in the Restrepo municipality, in the north of Valle del Cauca.

According to authorities and the National Government, the corridor between the north of Cauca and the south of the Valley, but in the vicinity of the Cauca River, as the northeastern, eastern and southeastern limits of Cali, is one of the key areas to dismantle the illegal business. of drug trafficking.

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It is one hour from the so-called ‘marijuana and coca triangle’, between the north of Cauca and the Valley, from where thousands of tons of narcotic drugs enter and leave, produced in four enclaves of a blood-soaked market that passes through these departments and He arrives in Narino.

The Cauca River is one of the main corridors along which organized armed groups are based in alliance with drug traffickers.

In this step between the two departments there is an entire chain financed with millions of dollars and pesos from organized crime to transport the hallucinogens to Cali, a task for which they have two route options.

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One of the drug routes that will be monitored by river and land reaches Santander de Quilichao, passing through Corinto and Miranda (north of Cauca) to then go to Florida and Pradera, in Valle del Cauca.

In this eastern area with commune 21 and those that make up the District of Aguablanca, communes 13, 14 and 15, as well as the western slope or side, in the Mayor’s Office of Cali They have detected forced recruitment of minors by organized armed groups with drug trafficking and criminal gangs. Therefore, authorities offer rewards of up to 50 million pesos to find those who are committing such recruitment.

Likewise, the Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, had announced at the end of last January, a river patrol on the Cauca River to stop the actions of these armed groups and more operations with 6,500 police and 2,300 soldiers.

Meanwhile, in the development of four search and raid procedures in commune 13 of Cali, the Metropolitan Police captured members of the ‘Los del polvero’ gang, a dangerous criminal structure dedicated to committing homicides, thefts and forced displacement in this part of the capital of the Valley.

In total, eight people were captured by court order, of which two will respond to the criminal responsibility system for Children and Adolescents for having committed the acts when they were minors.

A minor under 16 years of age was also apprehended, another person was arrested in flagrante delicto, and charges were filed against five others who are already deprived of their liberty.

“These criminal actors were known in the criminal world as ‘Gomelita’, in charge of planning criminal acts; ‘Blanquillo’, second in the structure, and dedicated to the commission of homicides in the contract killing modality; ‘Armandito’, ‘Cacuero ‘ and ‘Léyder’. Among all those captured, there are 32 judicial annotations for crimes related to homicide, theft, drug trafficking, conspiracy to commit a crime and illegal possession of firearms,” ​​reported the commander of the Cali Metropolitan Police, General Juan Carlos Leon.

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Eln started armed strike with terrorist attacks

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Diego Molano – Minister of Defense

Carlos Camargo – Ombudsman

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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Wednesday, February 23, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). After the ELN threatened the country with the beginning of an armed strike starting today, Defense Minister Diego Molano responded that they will not allow this guerrilla to intimidate Colombians a few days before election day. However, the threat of the insurgent group began with several attacks in the regions where they have incidence.

“They seek to affect democracy, they seek to influence the elections so that they open false peace negotiations or so that, as a candidate says, they give them forgiveness,” said Molano.

240,000 men and women of the Armed Forces have been deployed to shield the country against possible terrorist attacks.

“We decisively combat this structure of the ELN, which seeks to affect Colombians. They also do it in a cowardly way because all the leaders are in Venezuela and Cuba”, he added.

For his part, the Ombudsman, Carlos Camargo, rejected the insurgents’ threats.

“It directly affects the right to work, to education, to food, among others. The irregular armed groups must keep the civilian population out of their actions”, commented Camargo Assis.

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They capture the main leader of the urban terrorist network of the Eln

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General Jorge Eduardo Mora López – Commander of the Eighth Division of the National Army

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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Tuesday, February 8, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). In the village of Bajo Quirinal, a rural area of ​​the municipality of Fortul, Arauca, alias Mica Tropo was located and captured, a subject accused of being the main leader of the urban terrorist network of the ELN’s Eastern War Front. In the same event, the death of alias Pajaro, who would be the head of the militias of the Omaira Montoya Henao commission of the Domingo Laín Sanz Front of the same organized armed group, occurred during military operations.

These individuals, realizing the presence of the soldiers, opened fire on the soldiers, and in that exchange of shots the first of them was captured. The second, alias Bird, was injured. After securing the area, the military rescuers, safeguarding life and adhering to respect for human rights and in compliance with the provisions of international humanitarian law, provided first aid. Later, he was transferred in a National Army helicopter to the Araucanian capital to receive priority medical attention, but he finally died in the care center.

Mica Tropo, according to the authorities, would have a criminal record of more than 12 years in that terrorist structure, with extensive experience and criminal training in the development and orientation of high-impact terrorist actions, through the use of improvised explosive devices in the municipalities of Saravena, Fortul and Tame, department of Arauca; He was the trusted man of aliases Raúl or Nacho, main leader of the Eastern War Front, of the GAO Eln.

For his part, alias Pajaro, who died in the course of that military operation, had a criminal record of more than 14 years within the ELN and carried out criminal tasks as a logistics coordinator for criminal actions, acquiring war material and administration in order to provide for the commissions of the Eln’s Domingo Laín Sanz front. He would also be in charge of carrying out illegal activities in the urban area of ​​the municipalities of Arauquita and Fortul. He, in turn, was the guide of the support networks for the development of terrorist actions against the public force and the critical infrastructure of the State.

Among the terrorist actions in which the participation of these individuals is indicated, the crime of the deputy commander of the Fortul police station on March 25, 2017 stands out. On March 28, he ordered the murder of two Army soldiers after a harassment in the Caranal de Fortul village when they were escorting a public service bus. Likewise, the attack on a platoon of the National Army, on September 11, 2021, an event that left a non-commissioned officer and four professional soldiers killed and six more wounded.

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Ukraine Accuses Iran of Premeditated Terrorist Act in 2020 Plane Shootdown

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Ukraine is sharpening its accusation that Iran played a sinister role in the 2020 shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane over Tehran as the world marks the second anniversary of the tragedy.

“What happened on January 8th, 2020, was a terrorist act committed against a civilian aircraft,” Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine’s National Defense and Security Council secretary, said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with VOA Persian.

Danilov also expressed frustration with what he said was Iran’s refusal to cooperate in investigating and providing compensation for the downing of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752.

Iran has acknowledged firing missiles that struck the plane and killed all 176 people on board, but it called the incident an accident and blamed it on a misaligned air defense system and human error by the missile operators. The plane had taken off from Tehran minutes earlier, carrying mostly Iranians and Iranian Canadians who were flying to Kyiv en route to Canada.

The Iranian forces who shot down the Ukrainian plane had been on alert for a U.S. response to a missile strike that Iran launched on American troops in Iraq several hours earlier. Iran had attacked the U.S. troops, wounding dozens, in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike that killed top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad five days previously.

Danilov noted that before and after Iran’s pre-dawn missile strikes on Flight PS752, Iranian authorities had allowed other civilian jets to take off from Tehran airport. “We have the impression that they [the Iranians] had been waiting specifically for our plane. We can assume this,” he said.

Danilov said those who allegedly were waiting to strike the UIA jet were senior Iranian officials. “It must have been an order from senior management. No [air defense] operators can make such a decision on their own.”

The Ukrainian security official’s accusations regarding Iran’s role in the incident were tougher and more detailed than his previous ones.

FILE – A general view of the debris of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, which was shot down after takeoff from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran Jan. 8, 2020.

‘Conscious attack’

In an April 2021 interview with Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, Danilov said he believed the Iranian downing of Flight PS752 was “intentional” and a “conscious attack.”

Ukrainian news site Ukrinform later quoted Danilov as saying in May 2021 that Kyiv was “more and more inclined” to call the Iranian missile strikes a “terrorist act.” Danilov was responding to a Canadian judge’s ruling that month that the “missile attacks were intentional” and “the shooting down of the civilian aircraft constituted terrorist activity under applicable federal law.”

The Ontario court’s ruling came as part of a civil lawsuit brought by relatives of six Flight PS752 victims against Iranian officials, whom they blamed for the tragedy. In a further decision announced Monday, the court awarded the plaintiffs $84 million in damages “for loss of life caused by terrorism.”

Iran’s U.N. mission in New York did not respond to a VOA request for comment on Danilov’s latest statements that the downing of Flight PS752 was a premeditated, terrorist act. VOA made the request in a voicemail on the Iranian U.N. mission’s phone line and in messages sent to the mission by email and on Twitter.

In a separate email exchange with VOA on Friday, Ukraine’s former deputy prosecutor general, Gyunduz Mamedov, used even sharper language to describe Iran’s role in the shootdown.

Mamedov, who was involved in Ukraine’s ongoing criminal investigation of the incident while serving as deputy prosecutor general from 2019 to 2021, said the investigation remains in a pretrial stage in which the classification of the alleged crime is being determined.

“The pre-trial investigation is considering various categories of crime, including an act of terrorism,” Mamedov wrote. “It also is likely that the downing of an aircraft will be classified as a war crime.”

Ukraine has not disclosed evidence that Iran’s shooting down of Flight PS752 was part of a premeditated, intentional act.

FILE – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a memorial service for the victims of the shootdown of Ukrainian Airlines Flight PS752, at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Jan. 12, 2020.

‘Full reparations’

Canada, which lost 55 citizens and 30 permanent residents in the shootdown, has not publicly shared Ukraine’s assessments of a sinister Iranian role in the incident.

But Canada joined Ukraine and two other nations whose citizens were among the victims, Britain and Sweden, in issuing a statement Thursday vowing to “hold Iran accountable for the actions and omissions of its civil and military officials that led to the illegal downing of Flight PS752 by ensuring that Iran makes full reparations for its breaches of international law.”

The four nations, which joined together as an International Coordination and Response Group for the victims of Flight PS752, also said that after a first round of talks in July 2020, Iran rejected their January 5 deadline to resume negotiations on their collective demand for reparations. They said they would “now focus on subsequent actions … to resolve this matter in accordance with international law.”

Ukrainian National Defense and Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov speaks to VOA Persian in an exclusive Skype interview Jan. 5, 2022.

Danilov told VOA that not only has Iran paid no compensation to the Ukrainian victims’ families, but its cooperation with Ukraine’s criminal investigation was nonexistent.

In a statement issued Friday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Tehran has sent letters to embassies of relevant governments declaring a readiness to pay the families of 30 foreign victims.

The Iranian statement said Tehran was ready for “bilateral” talks with the countries whose citizens were killed in the shootdown. But it accused some of those nations, without naming them, of committing “illegal actions” and “trying to exploit this painful incident and the plight of the survivors for their own political purposes.”

Britain, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine have insisted on multilateral negotiations.

Trial questioned

Iran’s Foreign Ministry also noted that the Iranian judiciary has held several court sessions since opening a trial in November of 10 military personnel charged in connection with the shootdown.

In his VOA interview, Danilov questioned the credibility of that trial. “We don’t know whether these people are really responsible, because the processes that took place in Iran were held behind closed doors and foreign representatives were not allowed inside to confirm that this was a transparent, democratic procedure,” he said.

In explaining his belief that the downing of the Ukrainian plane was intentional, Danilov told the Globe and Mail in his April 2021 interview that Iran might have used it as a pre-dawn distraction to calm an escalating confrontation with the more powerful U.S. military.

He also cited Iran’s use of a Russian-made missile system to strike the jetliner. Ukrainian military experts have said such a system is unlikely to mistakenly shoot down a passenger plane.

This story was a collaboration between VOA’s Persian and Ukrainian services and English News Center. Kateryna Lisunova of VOA Ukrainian and Arash Sigarchi of VOA Persian contributed.