Army, police and intelligence agency helped assassinate Colombia’s most popular comedian

Source: Colombia Reports

Army, police and intelligence agency helped assassinate Colombia’s most popular comedian
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Mar 10, 2016

The army, the police and intelligence agency DAS assisted paramilitaries in the 1999 assassination of Jaime Garzon, the country’s most popular comedian at the time, according to prosecutors.

Garzon was killed by paramilitary assassins, but with the help of the military and officials of the DAS, which was dismantled earlier this decade after prosecutors found the institution had been infiltrated by far-right paramilitary straw men and was spying on the Supreme Court and journalists.

According to Prosecutor General’s Office papers leaked to Caracol Noticias, National Army Colonel Jorge Eliecer Plazas even provided housing for the assassins ahead of the murder.

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The army’s 17th Brigade, whose then-commander is in prison for a massacre, provided intelligence on the whereabouts of Garzon to the late Carlos Castaño, the founder and supreme commander of the AUC paramilitary umbrella organization.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/army-intelligence-agency-helped-kill-colombias-popular-comedian/

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Wrapped himself in the flag.









One of his acts on his tv show, the shoeshine boy.
He appeared to shine shoes of carious famous Colombian
officials, military figures, celebrities, people in the news.





Part of an outdoor memorial created to honor Jaime Garzon. [/center]