Two days of mourning in Pailitas for the murder of the community leader

Through Decree No. 044 of March 11, 2023, the Mayor’s Office of the municipality of Pailitas, Cesar, mourned the death of Yeisson Jacome Jacome, president of the Community Action Board of the Nueva Granada neighborhood, and decreed two days of mourning.

The Decree signed by the First President Carlos Javier Toro Velásquez, regrets the death of the Community Leader Mr. Yeisson Jácome Jácome, an event that occurred on March 10, 2023; “His spirit will live among us and keep his family together. We will remember him with much affection and admiration for the great heart that he displayed.”

March 11 and 12, 2023, are mourning days in the municipality of Pailitas, as a posthumous tribute to the commendable work of the community leader in question.

Jacome Jacome, was shot dead in an alleged kidnapping attempt, when he was on his way to the ‘El Capitan farm, property of his father in the San José village, a rural area of ​​the municipality of Pailitas.

The young man, 27 years old, was traveling on a motorcycle with Duván Andrés Guarín Madariaga, being attacked by armed men who were traveling in a gray Chevrolet vehicle, Corsa model.

The community leader died at the scene, while Guarín Madariaga was seriously injured and is fighting for his life at the San Andrés de Chiriguaná hospital.

A CAPTURED

Once the events occurred, in record time, units of the National Police and the Army activated the Candado Plan between the municipalities of Pailitas, Tamalameque, Pelaya and Curumaní, achieving the capture in flagrante delicto of Juan Carlos Carrascal Rueda, who was driving the vehicle. of plates BLD738 Chevrolet Corsa, which was identified by eyewitnesses of the event who saw the murderers escape in said car, reported Eduardo Esquivel, Secretary of the Departmental Government.

The official reiterated that joint work is being carried out between the public force and the institutions, which through a Unified Command Post are coordinating the actions deployed in the area to find the location of the other subject who managed to escape.

The news has caused shock in Pailitas, because it is a young person with a sense of belonging to his neighborhood and the municipality, said the Secretary of Government, Lilian Murcia, who added that until now it has not been confirmed if it was an attempt. of kidnapping or theft, however, investigations are ongoing by the National Police and the Army.

He reiterated that Jacome was a leader of the urban part, a young man who was very helpful to the community. “We do not know if he had received threats for the actions he followed, since no complaint rests in this office.”

The official warned that although there is no formal complaint in the department she directs, some public order disturbances are occurring in the municipality in which common crime has been intimidating some members of unions in the territory. This is being investigated by the competent authorities.

This would be the first murder of a social leader in the department of Cesar in 2023. It is necessary to remember that last year the Uladi leader Emilio Vega García was murdered, on February 10 in the municipality of Aguachica.

Likewise, the farmers Teófilo Acuña and Jorge Tafur on February 22, 2022 in the municipality of San Martín; and Jospe Luis Quiñonez, also a defender of the peasant sector on August 2 in the municipality of Tamalameque, according to statistics from the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace, Indepaz.

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