Indications that compromise the boyfriend of a missing Chilean girl in Santander

"We are available for justice to respond. "Quiet, as it has been since he's handed his version to the media, Juan Guillermo Valderrama Amezquita uttered these unique words, after his capture yesterday morning in the neighborhood of El Cristal Bajo, in Bucaramanga.

He is accused of being the author of the disappearance of Ilse Amory Ojeda, the Chilean whose track was lost for nearly a month in Santander.

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Yesterday at 9:45, under the care of men belonging to Esmad, Goes, Sijín and CTI, Valderrama was taken from his home and transferred to a tank that took him in a caravan to the Sijin facilities. where they did the full examination and identification.

The capture took place after the discovery of an incinerated skeleton in the rural area of ​​Rionegro, Santander, which, according to authorities, could be the missing woman. Until then, in the sector of Portachuelo, between Rionegro and El Playón, a vast operation had been carried out on Friday afternoon.

According to the authorities, on the site where the bone remains were, there was a hoof, a ring, as well as plates and screws that would correspond to those that had been inserted by Ilse Amory as a result of surgical procedures. in Chile.

Key witness

Avant-garde He learned that the authorities had arrived at the site with information provided by a key witness who had accompanied Valderrama to the place where the remains had been found.

"He was received | information from a citizen, contacted by Juan Guillermo Valderrama to accompany him during the cremation of a slaughtered beef.

"This citizen, after seeing the images of Valderrama in the media, is the one who took us to the site where we found the human remains that allow us to approach what could be the body of. Ilse Amory, "said the director of the press at a press conference. Police, General Óscar Atehortúa Duque.

Officially, Avant-garde He learned that after presumably ending Amory's life, Juan Guillermo returned to Bucaramanga and in the Cafe Madrid area, he contacted a man to escort him to Rionegro.

On the way, kilometers before arriving in Portachuelo, Valderrama bought 15,000 pesos of gasoline at a service station. With that, I would have cremated the body. Then he returned to Bucaramanga.

Precisely, this switch between Rionegro and the capital Santander was captured by the toll security cameras, in which it appears recorded four times.

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Captured by enforced disappearance

With all these tests on Friday night, the Office of the Prosecutor, before a judge in charge of warrants, requested the arrest warrant for enforced disappearance against Juan Guillermo Valderrama Amézquita, as well as the search warrant at his home.

"The capture was effective on the morning of this Saturday, thanks to the work of effective units of the Colombian National Police.The evidence that has been collected.Todays (yesterday), the Office of the Prosecutor will impute the crime of forced disappearance to the person of the Chilean citizen Ilse Ojeda.

"As we have evidence of skeletal remains (which were transferred to the Bogotá forensic pathology), with external features that would correspond to Ilse (…), we organized the practice of a diligence with the 39 Institute of Forensic Medicine so that it can be established by DNA test, which represents the bone remains of the Chilean citizen

"It is for this purpose that her sister Margarita Ojeda arrives in Bogotá, which will allow us to carry out checks through the biological chain, in the case of the missing Chilean woman.

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"If that were the case, the prosecutor's office would re-examine the imputation, because we would also be dealing with a case of aggravated feminicide, in addition to other possible crimes such as false accusation, obstruction of the evidence related to the commission of crimes, the rest incineration we identify, "said the Attorney General of the Nation, Néstor Humberto Martínez.

Today, captured persons should be brought before a judge at the Bucaramanga Judicial Services Center, where they will determine whether or not they dictate an insurance measure in a detention center.

From Chile, Alejandra Ojeda, Ilse's sister, described the crime as "infamous".