Colonel Óscar Dávila and the façade of the Casa de Nariño.AGENCIES
At the end of the afternoon of this Friday, Colonel Óscar Darío Dávila Torres, one of the policemen in charge of the security of the Casa de Nariño, was found dead in a vehicle in Bogotá. He was the head of the office of anticipative security of the Presidency, in which the polygraph was practiced on the nanny of President Gustavo Petro's chief of staff, Laura Sarabia, the event that triggered a scandal that led to the dismissal of Sarabia and the departure of Armando Benedetti from the Embassy of Caracas.
The presidential security office has been in the midst of the scandal over accusations by the nanny, Marelbys Meza, that she was pressured and harassed to accept the polygraph test, which was performed on her after Sarabia reported the loss of a briefcase with several thousand dollars from her home. Meza's phone and Sarabia's other domestic worker were illegally tapped under a court order to spy on phones linked to the Gulf Clan, after an investigative police officer stationed in Chocó – and whose name is withheld – told a prosecutor that a source had told him that the two women were linked to that criminal organization. something fake
The criminal lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río, close to the Government and defense lawyer of the investigating police, has accused the Prosecutor's Office of having planted the information to achieve the illegal chuzada. After hearing the news of Dávila's death, he accused that entity of making "an infamous persecution."
Yesterday I met with Colonel Davila who sought me out to tell me that the prosecutor's office was threatening him. They warned him that they would not stop "until blood flowed." Today he took his own life with his endowment weapon. The Prosecutor's Office is an infamous persecution.
— Miguel Angel Del Río Malo (@migueldelrioabg) June 10, 2023
The Prosecutor's Office had not summoned Davila so far, but last Friday the colonel had made himself available to the investigating entity with a letter entitled "Availability for presentation for interview and / or interrogation for consideration by the Prosecutor's Office." "I reiterate my interest in collaborating with the proper administration of justice," he said.
On Saturday morning, the president explained, via Twitter, that Davila committed suicide and that his driver is witnessing this. "Police Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Dávila, assigned to the security of the presidency of the Republic, has died by suicide. Near his house he sent his driver for a bottle of water, he left his gun on the seat and when he returned in front of him he committed suicide with a shot in the hundred with the pistol he had left, "he explained.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Dávila, assigned to the security of the presidency of the Republic, has died by suicide.
Near his house he sent his driver for a bottle of water, he left his gun on the seat and when he returned in front of him he committed suicide with a... pic.twitter.com/FME8CxgeE1
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) June 10, 2023
Before entering presidential security after Petro took office, Dávila made a career in criminal investigation positions; his previous role was as head of the criminal investigation section of Cundinamarca, the branch in the central department of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (Dijin) of the Police. The investigating police involved in the illegal interceptions was, precisely, a member of the Dijin.
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