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shoved him into the SUV.165 It was noted that Juan Carlos asked what to do with his bicycle and they
responded: “you won’t be needing it any more.”166
110. On July 9, 1996 – in the context of the incident described below (see infra para. 117) Florinda de Jesús Gallego Hernández asked the armed individuals about her brother Juan Carlos Gallego,
to which they responded that: “relax, he would be coming back.”167 Subsequently, on January 29, 1997,
FTA soldiers went to her house and she confronted them on this score. On that occasion, they told her
that “they were keeping an eye on that case because there had been an error.”168
111.
Thus far, the fate or whereabouts of Juan Carlos Gallego are still unknown.
3.4.2. Case of Jaime Alonso Mejía Quintero
112. Witnesses testified that on July 7, 1996, Jaime Alonso Mejía Quintero was at a billiards
parlor, next to the Medellín-Bogotá highway169 and that the same group of individuals who had taken
Juan Carlos Gallego away brought him out of said premises and put him into one of their SUVs.170 His
sister stated that the army members would usually approached him, call him a guerrilla member and tell
him that they would take him away.171
113.
unknown.
As of the present date, the fate or whereabouts of Jaime Alonso Mejía Quintero is
3.4.3. Case of Javier Giraldo Giraldo
165
Annex 24. Statement of Pablo Antonio Quintero to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney
General of the Nation, dated April 5, 2005. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 190-193. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
166
Annex 24. Statement of Pablo Antonio Quintero to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney
General of the Nation, dated April 5, 2005. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 190-193. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.
167
Annex 44. Complaint filed by Florinda de Jesús Gallego Hernández with the municipal criminal court of Cocorná,
dated July 11, 1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999.
168
Annex 29. Statement of Florinda de Jesús Gallego Hernández to the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation,
dated November 28, 2000. Annex to petitioners’ communication of September 1, 2004.
169
Annex 19. Submission of the Corporación Jurídica Libertad to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the
Attorney General of the Nation, filed on April 2, 2007. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999; Annex 30.
Statement of José Eliseo Gallego Quintero to the Office of the Municipal Ombudsman of El Carmen de Viboral, dated July 19,
1996. Annex to petitioners’ communication of July 1, 1999.
170
Annex 24. Statement of Diosdado Quintero Giraldo to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney
General of the Republic, dated November 8, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 64-70. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 24. Statement of María de la Cruz Hernández de Gallego to the National
Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated November 8, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book
No. 10. Pages 71-72. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010; Annex 24. Statement of Pablo
Antonio Quintero to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, dated April 5, 2005.
Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 190-193. Compact disk attached to petitioners’ communication of June 24, 2010.
171
Annex 24. Statement of Olivia del Socorro Mejía to the National Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney
General of the Nation, dated November 10, 2004. Case File No. 233 UNDH. Book No. 10. Pages 88-90. Compact disk attached to
petitioners’’ communication of June 24, 2010.