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For: EFE
Thursday, September 19
They assassinate a UN adviser during a robbery in Bogotá
Unknown persons murdered Natalia Castillo at dawn on Friday , a communications advisor for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Unodc), during a robbery in Bogotá, the authorities reported.
“We deeply regret an event that occurred at dawn today in the Galleries sector, where Some people leaving a public establishment were approached by some subjects to steal their items . As a consequence of this event a woman of 32 years, Cindy Natalia Castillo “, said the commander in charge of the Bogotá Police, General Óscar Gómez.
The officer pointed out that the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office formed “an inter-institutional team to quickly find these criminals” and added that offer a reward “of up to 20 million pesos (about $ 5, 000 dollars) to the person who provides information that allows us to identify and prosecute these criminals. ”
“Today is a sad day. We join the pain of his family and the workers of the Unodc “, wrote the embassy of Spain in Colombia on Twitter.
The 86% of entrepreneurs in Bogotá considers that the deterioration of security is the main negative change that the city experienced in the last year, according to the annual survey on the business climate carried out by the Chamber of Commerce of the Colombian capital.
Images of robberies at gunpoint in restaurants and shops, as well as street robberies in which thieves act vicious to the point of murdering citizens, are the constants in recent months in a country that is just recovering from the economic ravages of the covid pandemic- 19.
Just almost half a million Colombians i They returned to a condition of multidimensional poverty during 2020 mainly due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, as revealed in early September the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane).
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