The parish priest of the Asunción de Nuestra Señora parish, located in the Villa Bolívar neighborhood of the city of Villavicencio (Meta), was bitter surprised when he returned to his parishioners, after having officiated the Via Crucis for his parishioners this Good Friday.
In the early hours of the morning, the units of the Colombian National Police turned to accompany the parish priest Javier Arboleda Taborda and the pilgrims during the fifteen seasons of the route that recalls Jesús de Nazareth's death sentence, his execution on the cross and his subsequent resurrection, according to the Catholics' account.
Little did they imagine the authority and the priest Taborda that the friends of the alien would take advantage of various circumstances to enter the cural house. The darkness of the llanera morning, the concentration of everyone on the religious event, a construction on the neighboring property that served as a hiding place and the lack of people inside the residence made the perfect breeding ground for the apartmenters.
The criminals entered the cural house and took approximately 30 million pesos that were collected during the homilies: it was parishioners' money that would be used to pay for services and make repairs in the parish.
One of the parishioners, close to priest Taborda, filed the complaint with the Immediate Reaction Unit (URI) of the Attorney General's Office. One of the hypotheses used about this crime is that the perpetrator would be close to the priest or the congregation, since there was no evidence of struggle or rummaging of drawers and cabinets and possibly knew where the resources were kept.
As the investigation into the theft proceeds, the parishioners are not out of their astonishment and feel indignation at the disrespect of the criminals: not content with having stolen the money from the congregation, they did so on a Good Friday, the most sensitive date for Catholics.
President Iván Duque reported on Sunday that they captured the alleged head of the FARC dissidents, Juan Gabriel Granados, known as 'Orlando La Muerte'. According to the president, the operation was carried out in Villavicencio, capital of Meta, in a “new blow to organized crime” and assured that the defendant belongs to the Martín Villa group or the 10th front of the dissidents.
“In Villavicencio (Meta), thanks to the joint and coordinated work of our Public Forces, the capture of Juan Gabriel Granados, alias “Orlando La Muerte”, head of the Arsecio Niño del Gao-r E10 Company, was captured,” said the president.
Duque claimed on his social networks that alias 'Orlando La Muerte' had a criminal trajectory of more than 10 years and, apparently, led the Arsecio Niño company of the 10th front. He was “one of the main drivers of criminal activities related to drug trafficking, extortion, kidnappings and targeted homicides in the department of Arauca,” the head of state wrote on his Twitter account.
It should be recalled that the Martín Villa dissent at the time ignored the Peace Agreement and is now on the border between Venezuela and Colombia. Front 10 would have been created by Germán Briceño Suárez, alias' Grannobles', also known as the brother of the head of the FARC secretary, alias 'Mono Jojoy'. Currently, it is known that the Organized Armed Group (GAO) is led by Jorge Eliécer Jiménez Martínez, alias 'Arturo'.
Authorities reported that the 10th front would have joined other dissidents to form the Joint Command of the East and thus operate together. The alliance would include the 28th front in Casanare and the 45th front in Norte de Santander and Arauca. The three groups would be “waging a war on both sides of the Colombian-Venezuelan border that has cost hundreds of lives and caused the forced displacement of thousands of people.”
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