Colombia's Esmad is being investigated for abuse in detention.

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The Attorney General of Colombia announced on Wednesday that it will conduct an investigation into what happened last Tuesday when agents of the questioned Mobile Riot Squadron ( Esmad ) of the National Police detained two young men and introduced them in private vehicles.

The Public Ministry indicated that it will open the preliminary inquiry without determining the agents subject to prosecution because the name of the police elements that forced the young people to board the cars, at that time, with an unknown direction is not yet known.

Last Tuesday, when International Human Rights Day was commemorated, police officers detained and transported two people in private vehicles - one of them identified as María Fernanda Pérez Ramírez - during a university protest in Bogotá.

The Metropolitan Police of Bogotá responded hours later that the two young people are free and explained that the vehicles, in effect, did not carry official badges, but that both were driven by police officers and belong to the institution.

This new episode, which was known for a series of videos uploaded to social networks, caused countless complaints by political parties, human rights defenders and people in general about the abuses that Esmad has committed during social protests that They started last November 21.

Among the cases in which this security body is pointed out, the death of the young Dilan Cruz stands out, who was shot at close range by an element of Esmad .

The human rights promoter Juan Guillermo Hernández said that "these incidents ignite all the alarms and there is a huge doubt about what is being done and how Esmad is acting , which has to give an explanation . "

Deputy Juanita Goebertus , of the Green Party, said for her part in a tweet that “recent events of excessive use of force and arbitrary detentions by some members of the Police in Bogotá, are an urgent call for us to start as soon as possible a reform to the security sector ”.

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