53 the Antioquia Regional Office of the Attorney General, for reasons of jurisdiction, so that the latter could open a disciplinary investigation against José Vicente Castro, Commander of the Ituango Police Station. 125(54) On September 19, 2001, the Antioquia Regional Office of the Attorney General decided to declare that the disciplinary action against José Vicente Castro was time-barred, in application of articles 34 and 54 of Act 200 of 1995, since more than five years had elapsed since the events occurred in La Granja on June 11, 1996. B. i) Facts regarding El Aro The armed incursion 125(55) Following the incursion in La Granja, members of civil society of the Municipality of Ituango sent numerous communications to the different state authorities requesting the adoption of measures to guarantee the life and safety of the civilian population threatened by the activities of the illegal groups. They included, in particular, the lawyer and human rights defender, Jesús María Valle Jaramillo, who sent communications to the departmental authorities informing them of the paramilitary presence in the region. On November 20, 1996, he communicated with the Governor of Antioquia and with the Medellín Ombudsman in order to request protection for the inhabitants of Ituango. This request was repeated and expanded on January 20, 1997, by the former Comisión Intercongregacional de Justicia y Paz. On that occasion, the request for protection and attention for the zone was also sent to the national authorities. 125(56) Before the incursion in El Aro, the paramilitary group had met with members of the Army’s Girardot Battalion in the municipality of Puerto Valdivia. 125(57) In this context, a paramilitary incursion occurred in the municipal district of Builópolis, better know in the region of Ituango as El Aro. between October 22 and November 12, 1997. The chain of selective executions perpetrated by the paramilitary group that moved through the zone on foot for several days with the acquiescence, tolerance or support of members of the law enforcement bodies, began in the municipal district of Puerto Valdivia, from where they started out. ii) Persons executed in El Aro 125(58) On October 22, 1997, approximately 30 armed men, wearing military clothing arrived by land at the farm of Omar de Jesús Ortiz Carmona, located in the village of Puquí, in the municipal district of Puerto Valdivia, Department of Antioquia. There, they gathered all the workers and asked them about the guerrilla. Then, they took Omar de Jesús Ortiz Carmona and Fabio Antonio Zuleta Zabala apart from the group and shot them several times, murdering them. 125(59) Omar de Jesús Ortiz Carmona owned a farm and was 30 years of age at the time of his death. His permanent companion was María Oliva Calle Fernández.64 He 64 Cf. identity card of María Oliva Calle Fernández (file of attachments to the application, tome I, folio 0459).