A case of rape that occurred last Saturday in a neighborhood in the municipality of Pijao, Quindío, generated outrage among the inhabitants of this town, who scheduled a march for this Tuesday.
According to the lawyer and social leader of the municipality, Maryi Torres, it is a peaceful protest because “if they touch one, they touch us all. We are too small a municipality and we are going through acts of violence.”
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Last Saturday, a 22-year-old girl was raped and beaten by 5 men in a wooded area of the Morroseco neighborhood of Pijao. The woman was with her boyfriend, who was also beaten at the scene.
The couple was in a wooded area and 5 men threatened them with firearms, beat them and threatened her and told her they were going to kill her boyfriend
“This is a very small municipality and all the people became aware of the case because the young woman was taken to the hospital. The couple was in a wooded area and 5 men threatened them with firearms, beat them and they threatened her and told her that they were going to kill her boyfriend. They called them by their names, but the victims say they don’t know these 5 people,” Torres said.
The social leader added that, fortunately, they were not killed, when all this was happening, a young man from the municipality was passing by, he began to shout and the community left their houses and the men fled to the rural area.
Due to these events and others that have been known in recent weeks, several people joined and called for this peaceful protest that seeks to draw the attention of the departmental and national authorities to take action and provide protection to the population.
“In the municipality things have been presented that go unpunished, as it is such a hidden town, everyone is silent, if we had not called the march, no one would know what happened. A few days ago in the Santa Teresita institution they put young people from eleventh to take care of third grade children and from there some videos came out where the young people supposedly offered the girls money to kiss each other”.
The commander of the Quindío Police, Colonel Jorge Mauro Córdoba, said that the attention route for the abused young woman has already been prioritized, but “there is a reservation in this case and I cannot refer to it, but the timely attention was made. In the issue of public order in this municipality, we have been capturing people who commit thefts on farms and crimes in this municipality in the mountains”.
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