These terrorists, who made up the security of alias Ramiro, the main ringleader of the residual Organised Armed Group, GAO-r, Structure 18, would be responsible for constant threats against the inhabitants in the north of Antioquia, for planting improvised explosive devices, for instigating the forced displacement of peasant families and for the forced recruitment of minors.
In joint, coordinated and inter-agency military operations, carried out by the National Army, the Colombian Air Force, the National Police, the Attorney General's office and assisting the early warnings No.029 of 2018 and 004 of 2020, it was possible the death in development of military operations of six terrorists of the residual GAO E18, similarly, the capture of one individual and the finding of war material and military accessories.
As a result of the military operation in the north of Antioquia, military and police forces reached the village La Barranca, in the rural area of the municipality of Ituango, Antioquia, where a strategic attack against the terrorists of this organized armed group took place.
The neutralized terrorists were identified as alias Sandy or Cataleya, girlfriend of Alias Ramiro, main ringleader of GAO residual E18, alias Alberto Mico, alias Camale贸n and alias Camilo or Mono Puro, members of the security group of alias Ramiro, and alias Leo or Rula, who belonged to the GAO Los Caparros, who was the Link of the criminal alliance of this organized armed group and the residual GAO E18. In the operation, alias Tabares or Care Palo was in the same way captured, he carried out criminal logistics tasks within the armed structure.
During the military operation, it was in the same way possible the finding of six long rifle, two machineguns, three guns, 18 magazines, 800 cartridges, military materials and items of interest for the analysis of military intelligence. After accompanying the process of urgent acts, the bodies and the captured of were handed over to the judicial authorities.
Military operations continue in Los Mandarinos sector, in a rural area of the municipality of La Granja, in Ituango, Antioquia, where there is a fight against terrorists of the residual GAO, E18. As a result of this operation it was possible the death in the course of military operations of another of its members.
This result heavily hits the command and control of the GAO-r E-18, neutralizes the terrorist operations it intended to carry out against the communities and the Military Forces, and in the same way hits the drug trafficking routes through the illegal routes in the Nudo de Paramillo region.
Source: press-Colombian Air Force