143. José Vicente Rubiano Galvis 168 was 26 years of age in 1985 and worked in
construction, but at the time of the events he was on sick leave. According to Mr. Rubiano
Galvis, on November 7, 1985, he was traveling by bus with a colleague, when the bus was
detained at a military checkpoint in the municipality of Zipaquirá, on the outskirts of
Bogota. The soldiers presumably found weapons on the bus (two revolvers and one pistol)
and therefore detained José Vicente Rubiano Galvis and two other individuals accusing them
of being subversives and that they had taken weapons into the Palace of Justice. 169
144. According to the testimony of Mr. Rubiano Galvis, they were taken from the military
checkpoint to the Zipaquirá base, where they were presumably ill-treated (including being
beaten and subjected to electric shocks). From the Zipaquirá base they were transferred to
“Usaquén” in Bogota, where they were again allegedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment
so that they would presumably “say where the weapons were and that [they had
participated in the taking of the Palace of Justice].” According to the testimony of Mr.
Rubiano Galvis, they remained in the stables until the morning of November 8, 1985, when
they were taken to the No. 13 Military Police Battalion located in the Puente Aranda sector
and from there to the model prison in Bogota, where they remained until November 23,
1985. 170 Since the facts relating to this victim are disputed, they will be examined in
Chapter X of this Judgment.
D. The processing of the crime scene
145. During the retaking of the Palace of Justice orders were given to remove some of the
corpses. 171 Subsequently, when the Palace of Justice had been retaken, the military
authorities “ordered the seizure of weapons, and war materiel and provisions.” 172 They also
ordered that “corpses be assembled on the first floor, before all their clothes and all their
belongings were removed.” 173 The corpses that were moved there included “those that were
in the bathroom located between the second and third floors, and also some of the corpses
from the fourth floor.” 174 In addition, some corpses were “carefully washed.” 175 This
168
Mr. Rubiano Galvis is married to Lucía Garzón Restrepo, with whom he has a son and a daughter.
169
Cf. Testimony of José Vicente Rubiano Galvis of May 15, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file,
folio 1283); birth registration of José Vicente Rubiano Galvis (evidence file, folio 27737); affidavit made on November
5, 2013, by Jos�� Vicente Rubiano Galvis (evidence file, folio 35620); affidavit made on November 5, 2013, by Lucía
Garzón Restrepo (evidence file, folio 35661); Testimony of Ángela María Buitrago during the public hearing on the
merits in this case; Periodic Report on Operations of the National Army: October 20 to November 20, 1985 (evidence
file, folio 20413), and Psychosocial expert appraisal of the victims of arbitrary detention and torture and their next of
kin by Ana Deutsch of October 2013 (evidence file, folio 36054).
170
Cf. Testimony of José Vicente Rubiano Galvis of May 17, 2007, before the Prosecution Service (evidence file,
folios 1286 and 1287); Testimony of José Vicente Rubiano Galvis of June 2, 2009, before the 51st Criminal Court of
the Bogota Circuit (evidence file, folio 14665); affidavit made on November 5, 2013, by José Vicente Rubiano Galvis
(evidence file, folio 35622), and certification issued by the Judge Advocate recording that José Vicente Rubiano Galvis
“was retained from November 7 to 23, 1985, for presumed violation of Decree 1056 of 1984” (evidence file, folio
24151).
171
Cf. Judgment of the Superior Court of Bogota of January 30, 2012 (evidence file, folio 22993).
172
Report of the Special Investigative Court (evidence file, folio 30531), and Report of the Truth Commission
(evidence file, folios 192 and 193). See also: Military Forces of Colombia, Relación parcial del material de guerra
incautado a los grupos subversivos M-19 en el Palacio de Justicia (evidence file, folios 31620 to 31623).
173
Report of the Special Investigative Court (evidence file, folio 30531); Report of the Truth Commission (evidence
file, folio 193); Judgment of the 51st Criminal Court of the Bogota Circuit of December 15, 2011 (evidence file, folio
21008), and Written notes by Carlos Bacigalupo Salinas (evidence file, folio 36315). According to the forensic
pathologist of Institute of Forensic Medicine at the time of the events, “perhaps for safety reasons, the officials who
removed the bodies placed many objects of value apart and most of the bodies arrived at the Institute without these
elements, [fragments of clothing, shoes or jewelry,] which would have been of assistance.” Testimony provided by Dr.
Dimas Denis Contreras Villa on February 5, 1988 (evidence file, folio 30889).
174
Report of the Truth Commission (evidence file, folio 201), and Judgment of the Superior Court of Bogota of
January 30, 2012 (evidence file, folio 23000).
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