The reasons for Alberto Santofimio to submit to the PEC

Once, the Attorney General's office asked the Special Court for Peace (JEP) not to consider the submission request of Alberto Santofimio Botero, sentenced to 24 years in prison for the murder of Luis Carlos Galán , the former member of Congress. He explained why he had made such a request.

In the six-page letter to the prosecutor's office, Santofimio stated that he had "made the decision to submit voluntarily to the special jurisdiction for peace, not as part of the search for penitentiary benefits, but for the purpose of demonstrating my innocence in justice, impartial, independent, current, restorative and far from political and media pressure. "

For the former congressman, the position taken by the Attorney General's office informing the CEP that the case was not recorded in the context of the armed conflict, they intend to "silence the voice" so that transitional justice does not reveal historical events in the country. , which he knows during the decade of the 80s.

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He pointed out that the prosecution was unaware that Galán's crime was founded in the context of the armed conflict. "It is noted that this document is based on statements that depart from the truth and procedural reality, stating that Mr. Galán Sarmiento's homicide is not part of the internal armed conflict", did he declare.

He added that it is "the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Office of the Attorney General of the nation that confirmed in many orders, including in the judgment of cbadation pronounced against me, that he it was a crime in a scenario of internal armed conflict, by an organized group, armed, seeking to destabilize the state ".