341. Luz Helena Sánchez Gómez was also shown a video marked with the number “1”
found during the judicial inspection of the Attorney General’s office, and she stated that
“this image is very poor,” and identified as Carlos Horacio Urán a person with “straight dark
hair who looks like a mestizo, perhaps around 1.70 to 1.80 meters tall.” The “figure and
bodily demeanor appear to be like those of Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas.” 524
342. The judge of the Civil Cassation Chamber, Nicolás Pájaro, also stated that he had
recognized Justice Carlos Urán in some videos leaving the Palace at the same time as he
did. 525 However, there is no information in the case file on which videos or when this
identification was made. The court reporter Ignacio Gómez made the same observation; on
the afternoon of November 7, 1985, he was on one side of the Palace of Justice and
recognized Judge Pájaro when he was coming out, and a colleague told him that the person
following him was Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas. Subsequently, he identified Justice Urán Rojas
in the Noticias Uno video, that he handed over to Ana María Bidegain and she confirmed the
identification 526 (supra para. 339).
343. Furthermore, on February 1, 2007, during a judicial inspection of the B-2 of the 13th
Brigade various personal documents of Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas were found. 527 This
Brigade is precisely one of the places where detainees from the Palace of Justice were taken
(supra para. 196). Also, according to the testimony of Ms. Bidegain, her husband’s body
was returned without his personal items, but several days later, his wedding ring and a key
ring from the University of Notre Dame were delivered to her, even though neither object
had his name or any features that would identify it as belonging to Mr. Urán Rojas 528.
344. There are other indications that Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas did not die on November 7
inside the Palace of Justice, because his body did not appear until November 8. In this
regard, friends of Mr. Urán Rojas went to the Palace of Justice on November 7 and searched
for his body “very thoroughly” on the first floor, without finding it.529 That same evening,
Luz Helena Sánchez Gómez went to the Institute of Forensic Medicine where she was
“allowed not only to look on the stretchers and on the tables, but also in the freezers that
were full, and [she] did not find Carlos Horacio.” It was the following day that she went to
“a different place to the one where [she] had been looking the previous evening,” the socalled guerrillas room, and there she found Mr. Urán Rojas. 530 According to the autopsy
524
Continuation of the testimony provided by Luz Helena Sánchez Gómez before the Prosecution Service on August
16, 2007 (evidence file, folio 30600).
525
Cf. Video testimony provided by Nicolás Pájaro before the Prosecution Service on November 2, 2007 (evidence
file, video 1, folio 15012).
526
Cf. Affidavit made on November 5, 2011, by Ignacio Gómez (evidence file, folios 35915 and 35916). However,
previously he had stated that he had identified Mr. Urán Rojas when he showed the video to Ms. Bidegain and she told
him that the said person was her husband. Cf. Testimony of Ignacio Gómez of January 20, 2011, before the
Prosecution Service (evidence file, folio 16018).
527
During this inspection the following items, among others, were found: identity card issued by the Council of
State, Coviajes card, Colombian driving license, membership card in the Lawyers’ Professional Association, and
identity card and driving license of Indiana, United States of America. Cf. Judicial inspection of February 1, 2007
(evidence file, folios 18780, 18782, and 18784 to 19791).
528
Cf. Testimony of Ana María Bidegain of February 22, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file, folios
1296 and 1297).
529
Cf. Testimony of Germán Castro Caycedo of April 2, 2012, before the 35th notary of the Bogota Circuit (evidence
file, folio 14683), and Affidavit made by Teresa Morales de Gómez on May 11, 2012 (evidence file, folio 14692).
530
Cf. Testimony provided by Luz Helena Sánchez Gómez before the Prosecution Service on August 16, 2007
(evidence file, folios 14636 and 14637).
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