Government rejects "humiliation" of police officers during protest in Colombia | Video

Bogotá, Mar 6 (EFE), (Camera: Santiago Guerra).- The Colombian Interior Minister, Alfonso Prada, rejected this Monday the "humiliation and cruel treatment" towards the police officers detained last week by peasants and indigenous people in the department of Caquetá (south), during a protest that left three dead.

Statements by Hernando Alfonso Prada Gil - Minister of the Interior and official spokesperson for the Colombian government.

This morning on the radio and last night on social networks I heard statements from the policemen that we managed to recover in this process that said that they were subjected to humiliation, that they were stripped of their shoes, that they were exhibited like animals was the phrase they said and I want to express my solidarity to the 78 members of the police. I was not aware of those details that I just found out and obviously from here I want on behalf of the President of the Government to reject the humiliation to which the police were subjected, it is not acceptable under any circumstances that any police officer, any Colombian, has been subjected to humiliation and cruel or degrading treatment. It is expressly forbidden in the Political Constitution and I want to reject this behavior and be in full solidarity with the policemen, I deeply regret that this has been so and I again censure the breach of human conditions that occurred in the midst of these events.

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Date: 06/03/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Politics
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 77 seconds
Reference: 55010662497
Relevance: Normal