Due to the acts attributed to the top leader of the ‘Second Marquetalia’, three arrest warrants were issued against him
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Another of the objectives that the Prosecutor’s Office intends is to bring Iván Márquez to trial for acts of recruitment and homicide. Regarding this point, the accusing entity assured that on January 8, 2000, members of the Farc’s 47th front took by force a 16-year-old adolescent in Nariño, (Antioquia).
Today, Saturday, June 4, the Attorney General’s Office reported that it made three judicial decisions against Iván Luciano Márquez Marín Arango, alias Iván Márquez, designated as the top leader of the FARC dissident structure known as ‘Second Marquetalia’.
The judicial actions against the former member of the secretariat of the extinct FARC guerrillas are: Accusation of a National Police lieutenant for the crime, recruitment, homicide and forced displacement. According to the investigative entity, the acts attributed to him were carried out by fronts that were in his charge and in the guidelines and actions that he would have set as coordinator of the former Northwest Bloc of the former guerrilla.
“In that sense, his possible responsibility is defined by the criminal role and hierarchy that he played in the illegal armed group,” said the Attorney General’s Office.
Faced with the crime of the Police lieutenant Nacional, Wargner Harvey Tapias Torres, the Prosecutor’s Office issued an indictment against Márquez for the crimes of homicide of a protected person and aggravated kidnapping for ransom. This process is related to the detention of Lieutenant Tapias Torres, on May 28, 1997, in the El Limón sector, on the road that leads from Turbo to San Pedro de Urabá (Antioquia).
The evidence presented by the Prosecutor’s Office would show that the officer was in captivity for almost six years, to later be assassinated on May 5, 2003 in the jungle area of Urrao (Antioquia). The investigation pointed out that FARC guerrillas shot him when they noticed an operation by the Armed Forces in the area, which sought to rescue several uniformed men, the then governor of Antioquia, Guillermo Gaviria Correa, and the former peace counselor of the department, Gilberto Echeverri Mejía. .
Another of the objectives pursued by the Prosecutor’s Office is to bring Iván Márquez to trial for acts of recruitment and homicide. Regarding this point, the accusing entity assured that on January 8, 2000, members of the Farc’s 47th Front took by force a 16-year-old adolescent in Nariño, (Antioquia).
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Due to these facts, the Prosecutor’s Office charged Iván Márquez with the crimes of recruitment of minors, illicit recruitment, homicide of a protected person and aggravated forced disappearance.
Finally , the Prosecutor’s Office reported in its bulletin 44431 that it imposed a preventive detention measure on Iván Márquez for the crimes of deportation, expulsion, transfer or forced displacement of the civilian population.
This case would be related to the pressures received by a peasant from the village of El Rosario, in Argelia (Antioquia). The accusing entity pointed out that in December 2004 the man had to leave his land and sell it at a lower price for refusing to meet, take food and collaborate with the Ninth Front of the then FARC.
The delegated prosecutors of each of the cases reiterated three arrest warrants against him due to his status as a dissident and his decision to remain in hiding.