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Juliana Giraldo: Gender perspective added to death investigation

2020-09-25T18:53:43.275Z


An expert in gender perspective will determine if Juliana Giraldo's gender identity is relevant ”in the investigation


Demonstrators in Cali, Colombia, protested the death of Juliana Giraldo in front of the headquarters of the Army's Third Brigade.

(Credit: Luis ROBAYO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO / AFP via Getty Images)

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The Colombian Attorney General's Office will investigate the death of Juliana Giraldo, a transgender woman, with a differential approach from the gender perspective.

The victim was shot in the head, allegedly by a Colombian Army uniform, at an alleged military checkpoint in Miranda, Cauca, in the southwest of the country.

An expert on gender perspective traveled to the area, where members of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor's Office, Cauca and Cali sections, together with the National Police, carry out the preliminary tasks to clarify what happened.

According to the expert, the purpose "is to determine whether the victim's gender identity is relevant" in the case that occurred, in addition to "fully respecting her identity" in the investigation.

  • They denounce that a Colombian Army soldier shot dead a woman in an alleged military checkpoint

Demonstrators protested outside the headquarters of the Third Army Brigade in Cali, Colombia, over the death of Juliana Giraldo in Cauca.

The Army, which recognized the facts and regretted them, investigates the facts.

(Credit: LUIS ROBAYO / AFP via Getty Images)

For its part, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation affirmed that it has already opened a preliminary investigation into the death of Juliana Giraldo, in which it seeks to "establish the identity of the soldier who would have fired his rifle."

The institution claims to have ordered several tests, among them, "the identification of the members of the Army present in the procedure and the weapons that were used."

With the opening of this process, the control body says that it seeks to "verify the occurrence of the conduct" to determine if this is "constitutive of disciplinary offense and to be able to establish whether it has acted under a ground of exclusion of responsibility" .

The death of Juliana Giraldo

On Thursday, a video showing an upset man who shouts for help for someone he identifies as "my wife" went viral on social networks, while recording a soldier lowering his face.

"This man killed me," says the man who recorded the video.

The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, condemned the incident in a tweet and said that he had ordered the Ministry of Defense and the Army "to arrange the necessary for the investigation with speed."

The president affirmed that "the person responsible should receive exemplary punishment" and expressed his solidarity with the relatives of Juliana Giraldo, 38 years old.

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Source: cnnespanol

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