Angelica Monsalve would not accept protection plan by the Attorney General's Office

Prosecutor Angelica María Monsalve called her last Monday, April 4 at 8:30 p.m. by Marta Manzera, the Deputy Attorney General of the Nation and warned her that a criminal gang is orchestrating a plan to assassinate her. His name became media after the pressures he had suffered after calling Carlos Ríos Velilla, Javier Ríos Velilla and Felipe Ríos Velilla to indict charges, who were investigated for a tender for the collection of TransMilenio.

The Attorney General's Office and the Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dijin) say that the gang that would be behind the attack on the public servant would be the Gulf Clan.

This was told by the Deputy Prosecutor in her telephone communication and was also stated by General Fernando Murillo, director of Dijin, “in the conduct of the operation 'Condor' against drug trafficking and specifically against the 'Gulf Clan', information is received through human sources of information about a possible attack that is being planned in against prosecutor Angelica Maria Monsalve,” the general explained.

Despite these two alerts, the prosecutor assured that she will reject the protection scheme offered by the Prosecutor's Office. This was confirmed in an interview with W Radio on the morning of this Wednesday, April 6. “I would have to sign a document for them to authorize a security study, which yields an evaluation, it's like giving a blank check to the prosecutor or the director of protection.”

This is explained by the prosecutor because this security study reveals two paths: “The first is that if the institution determines that the prosecutor is at extreme risk, there will be physical protection, but if it is an extraordinary risk there may be a change of workplace or reassignment of the process.”

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Monsalve warns that the risk of accepting this protection is set out in article 155 of resolution 1006 of 2016 of the Office of the Attorney General, which states: “In the event that the risk is extraordinary, a change of address will be made, which is understood as the change of workplace of the server located inside the Prosecutor's Office General of the Nation, to another place in the country, away from the risk zone”.

For the prosecutor, her work has nothing to do with the interests of the Gulf Clan and that is why this threat is inexplicable. “I handle white-collar crimes, the suspects are always public officials, I don't feel that this is a threat, I have been handling crime for years and they have been very well behaved, I have been in situations with more influential people and I am terrified of this alleged attack, I can't find the causal link. Why would the Gulf Clan want to kill me, I don't even know what that organization does and I think they don't know anything about me either.”

Finally, he added that, “if someone wants to hurt me, I am not going to hold anyone responsible, we already know who the suspects are, who were the ones who exerted the traffic in influence to obstruct that justice, then if someone wanted to hurt me it could be those people who are qualified and pointed out by me and who have felt offended by my statements. However, I don't feel threatened by these people either.”

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