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(b) Yimmy Rodríguez Quintero “asked them to wait a moment; he walked over to
the workshop where he was employed, which was close to his home, reported
the presence of the men in his house and attracted the community’s
attention; however, one of the men approached him and demanded that he
hand over the money; so he re-entered his home and took out a gun which
he pointed at two of the men who were in the house and who were
unarmed”;
(c) “As a result of the community’s action, the police arrived and detained the
two men. It appears that one of these men was known as Yimmy Ovalle and
the other by the alias ‘Moroco’”;
(d) “The police also took Yimmy [Rodríguez Quintero] to the police station, and
he filed a complaint […]”;
(e) “At the police station […], ‘Moroco’ shouted at them that he would finish off
all of them when he got out, and it was there that Wilmar [Rodríguez
Quintero] and Yimmy [Rodríguez Quintero] discovered that this individual
formed part of a group of demobilized paramilitary personnel, receiving a
subsidy from the Colombian Government and that, on several occasions, he
had been detained accused of extortion and paramilitary activities, but had
always been released”;
(f) “Men from the same group have demanded that Wilmar and Yimmy withdraw
their complaint to avoid problems”;
(g) On February 4, 2007, “a man, known as ‘Pablo’, approached the home of
Wilmar [Rodríguez Quintero] and Yimmy [Rodríguez Quintero] and told them
that the ‘Patrón’ [the Boss] wanted to talk to them. […T]he man dialed a
number on a mobile telephone and put Wilmar in communication with a man
[…] who told him that it had all been a mistake, because they had been told
that what [Wilmar and Yimmy] possessed was derived from drug trafficking
and that is why they had attempted to extort money from [Wilmar and
Yimmy]; however, if the latter paid a lawyer to obtain his men’s release from
prison, he promised that there would be no problems.” That evening, “at
approximately 10.30 p.m., unidentified men fired at the Rodríguez Quintero
brothers’ vehicle and, following the intervention of Colonel Efraín Oswaldo
Aragón, a member of the National Police responsible for human rights, the
local Police came to the house and detained three individuals”;
(h) “Subsequently, around midnight, an unidentified man telephoned the
RODRÍGUEZ QUINTERO brothers’ home and threatened them to make them
withdraw the complaint”;
(i) On February 5, [2007,] the representatives “contacted the Director of Human
Rights and International Humanitarian Law of the Vice Presidency, the
Director of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, and Colonel Aragón, and coordinated with them an escort
from the National Police to remove the RODRÍGUEZ QUINTERO brothers from
the place where they were in danger”; and
(j) “Wilmar and Yimmy are in an extremely grave situation of vulnerability and
danger. […] Members of the paramilitary groups continue intimidating the