Many Colombians today were alarmed by the news explaining the release in Spain of Luis Jhon Castro Ramírez, alias El Zarco ‘, a demobilized member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and a recruiter accused of “false positives”. The reason? In that country, they say they have not received an extradition request from the government of President Iván Duque.
Despite the fact that the authorities of the Iberian country, say these versions, made it available to Colombia, Bogota did not report it, so the aforementioned criminal enjoys such an omission.
The Minister of Justice, Wilson Ruiz, In a dialogue with La W Radio, he assured that both the Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried out all the procedures to ensure that the confessed murderer was extradited to Colombia and not released, as it happened.
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The Minister assured that Interpol claimed that the air transfer of Castro Ramírez was not carried out due to the restrictions derived from the coronavirus.
“Faced with the case of Luis John Castro Ramirez, known as” El Zarco ““I must emphasize that the Ministry of Justice and Law and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have done all the necessary procedures and made every effort to ensure that this member of the ELN is brought to account for his crime before the Colombian justice,” said the station official. mentioned above.
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The discussion is open. The reality is that “El Zarco” is not in Colombia today nor Salvatore Mancuso, one of the leaders of the death squads that operated nationally under the acronym of the United Columbia Self-Defense Forces, AUC.
In this case, it was reported to be the sum of a surprising chain of errors in Columbia’s proceedings: from the appropriate moments requested by the US authorities, the loss of documents and even the sending of papers in Spanish without having translated them into English.
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The public reason, a prestigious think tank, in an analysis of this case in which it summarizes the fact that Colombia submitted four requests to the American authorities for the extradition of Mancuso. “But they all made mistakes,” he concludes, summarizing the statement.
1. The first two, sent on April 15 and May 13, 2020, were based on arrest warrants issued by the Barranquilla Superior Court of Justice and Peace Chamber for crimes such as homicide, disappearance and displacement.
The American judiciary did not respond to these requests, because the responsibility attributed to Mancuso is to command the organized group that committed them, and this figure of responsibility does not exist in the American legal system.
2. The third and transitional extradition request had to be withdrawn, as the offenses in question had already been known to Justice and Peace, there was already a conviction and the sentence had been carried out. Among them were several homicides and kidnappings.
3. The fourth was not an extradition request, but a request for pre-trial detention for extradition purposes, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted on August 20 following the orders of the Justice and Peace Chamber of the Judicial Court in Bogota.
4. Some media outlets pointed out that the request was not submitted in English, a requirement that is enshrined in the United States-Colombia Extradition Treaty. To this, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs replied that it hopes to advance the pre-trial detention process while the complete file has been translated to request an extradition request.
5. The above indicates that the Colombian government has not filed any application to meet the requirements for the extradition of Mancuso to Colombia.
Thus, the confusion among many citizens is natural: why does Colombia fail to bring in criminals of this caliber?
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