118. Bernardo Beltrán Hernández was 24 years old in 1985 and worked as a waiter in the Palace of Justice cafeteria. On November 6, 1985, Bernardo Beltrán Hernández left home at around 7.20 a.m. to go to work. 119. Following the events, his family went to the Palace of Justice to identify the body of Mr. Beltrán Hernández among the corpses. They then looked for him in hospitals, the Institute of Forensic Medicine, and the 13th Brigade, without obtaining information on his fate. C.2.d) Héctor Jaime Beltrán Fuentes 145 120. Héctor Jaime Beltrán Fuentes was 28 years old in 1985; he was married to María del Pilar Navarrete Urrea, with whom he had four daughters, and he worked as a waiter at the Palace of Justice cafeteria. On November 6, 1985, he left home at 6 a.m. to go to work. At 11 a.m. his wife called him, but he did not answer. His brother found Mr. Beltrán Fuentes’ identity document in the cafeteria when he entered the Palace of Justice after it had been retaken. 121. Mr. Beltrán Fuentes’ brother, who worked in the DAS, went to the Casa del Florero to look for his brother on both November 6 and 7 (infra para. 263). On the evening of November 6, his father approached the Palace of Justice and asked those who were outside the Casa del Florero about the cafeteria employees and he was allegedly told that “they were taken out alive and [were being held] in the Casa del Florero.” Following the events, the family of Héctor Jaime Beltrán Fuentes looked for him in the Institute of Forensic Medicine, hospitals, clinics and military facilities, including the Cavalry School and other places where it was rumored that the survivors of the Palace of Justice had been taken. C.2.e) Gloria Stella Lizarazo Figueroa 146 122. Gloria Stella Lizarazo Figueroa was 31 years of age in 1985; she lived with Luis Carlos Ospina and had three daughters and one son. She worked in the self-service section of the Palace of Justice cafeteria. On November 6, 1985, it was she who opened the cafeteria in the morning. 123. Following the events, her family members approached the Palace of Justice and looked for her in hospitals, clinics, the Cavalry School, the 13th Brigade, the DAS, the Sacromonte caves and the Ministry of Justice, but obtained no information about her whereabouts. According to a statement made by Luis Carlos Ospina, on one occasion, “three or four days after the events,” a soldier at the Cavalry School told him that people had been brought file, folios 454 and 456); birth registration of Bernardo Beltrán Hernández (evidence file, folio 27395); expansion of the complaint of Bernardo Beltrán Monroy on August 29, 2001 (evidence file, folio 1115); Testimony of Omaira Beltrán de Bohórquez of August 25, 2006, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 29378), and unsworn statement of Fabio Beltrán Hernández of November 5, 2013 (evidence file, folio 35690). 145 The evidence relating to this victim can be found in: Testimony of Héctor Jaime Beltrán of June 15, 2012, before the first notary of the Soacha Circuit, Cundinamarca (evidence file, folio 27386); Testimony of María del Pilar Navarrete of June 12, 2012, before the 54th notary of the Bogota Circuit (evidence file, folio 27390); expansion of the complaint on August 29, 2001, of María del Pilar Navarrete Urrea (evidence file, folio 28888); birth registration of Evelyn Beltrán Navarrete (evidence file, folio 27347); expansion of the criminal complaint of Héctor Jaime Beltrán on August 29, 2001 (evidence file, folio 1121); Testimony of Mario David Beltrán Fuentes of April 10, 2006, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folios 28935, 28936 and 28937), and Testimony of Héctor Jaime Beltrán of February 20, 2006, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 28897). 146 The evidence relating to this victim can be found in: Testimony of Marixa Casallas Lizarazo of June 13, 2012, before the 71st notary of the Bogota Circuit (evidence file, folios 26363 and 26364); Testimony of Luis Carlos Ospina Arias of December 10, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folios 27933, 27934 and 27939); ten-print fingerprint record of Gloria Stella Lizarazo (evidence file, folio 28007); Testimony of Cecilia Cabrera of August 16, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 29556); Testimony of Lira Rosa Lizarazo of December 12, 1985, before the Ninth Itinerant Criminal Investigation Court of Bogota (evidence file, folio 29541); affidavit made by Deyamira Lizarazo on November 6, 2013 (evidence file, folio 35711). 44

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