Courthouse in Toulouse, southwest Colombia, surrendered to the flames yesterday Tuesday after extensive clashes with police, a fact that celebrated a portion of the protesters, according to local media.
According to the radio station La Voz de los Robles, as broadcast by AMPE, the building was set on fire after riot police tried to “lift the blockade” of protesters in the city, about 100km from Cali.
Reacting, hooded protesters set the building on fire and blocked the road with fire trucks, according to a video posted on social media.
Justice Minister Wilson Ruiz condemned Twitter for “terrorist” acts “with the aim of sowing chaos and fear”, while Defense Minister Diego Molano denounced through the same social networking site the “vandals” who “wanted to obstruct justice” this attack.
The images reminded many Colombians of one of the most horrific episodes of the civil war, in 1985, when a courthouse was occupied by M-19 guerrillas before the army recaptured it with a bloody operation during which a huge fire broke out with around a hundred dead. live TV.
From the beginning of mass protests against the government of conservative President Ivan Duque, on April 28, the Valle del Cauca region is the epicenter of protests and incidents. The mobilizations are severely suppressed by the security forces.
Most of the at least 43 deaths recorded in the mobilizations have occurred in this area plagued by poverty, racism, drug trafficking and the resurgence of fighting with former FARC insurgents rejecting the 2016 peace deal. .
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