Judge Bernal, of the Justice and Peace chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá, He assured that this office is competent to define Mancuso’s requestwho requested his freedom.
By benefiting from this measure, Mancuso must appear every time he is required by the Justice and Peace courts.
Appearance before the JEP
Last April the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) reported that it could not grant him “temporary, conditional and anticipated release” “for the moment.” to Mancuso, who joined that court created after the signing of peace with the FARC, in 2016, to try crimes committed during the Colombian armed conflict.
The JEP explained on that occasion that “it does not currently have the objective elements required by the nature of Salvatore Mancuso Gómez’s appearance status.”
On April 10, The JEP called on Mancuso to give a free version of the massacres occurred in the towns of La Granja (1996) and El Aro (1997), in the department of Antioquia (northwest).
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Equally must provide information on the consolidation of the Convivir security cooperatives, that were the seed of the paramilitary groups, and detail how through these private surveillance associations “serious human rights violations would have been carried out against members of social movements.”
Mancuso, who He served a 15-year sentence in the United States for drug trafficking, he is investigated in Colombia for more than 75,000 crimes as leader of the AUC, the group to which the most homicides are attributed during the conflict.
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, appointed Mancuso “peace manager” in July last year to, as he said, finish the peace process that he believes was not concluded with the paramilitaries.
For Mancuso to fulfill that role should not have a private insurance measure of the freedom of any court.
