Trial begins for official charged with murder of Jaime Garzon (political comedian)
Trial begins for official charged with murder of Jaime Garzon
posted by Peter Bolton
Oct 2, 2013
A trial for the 1999 murder one of Colombias best-known public figures, journalist and television personality Jaime Garzon, began this week in Bogota.
Jose Miguel Narvaez, the former deputy director of the now-defunct security agency DAS, is standing trial for aggravated homicide, more than 14 years after Garzons death.
Prosecutors are alleging that Narvaez organized the assassination by enlisting Carlos Castaño, the founder of the right-wing paramilitary group AUC, to put out a hit against Garzon. Castaño was convicted in absentia in 2001 of masterminding the plot and remains the only person to have been found guilty in the case.
The murder
Garzon, 39 at the time of his death, was shot five times while traveling to work at a Bogota radio station on August 13, 1999, and died instantly. Two assassins pulled up next to his vehicle on a motorcycle as he was stopped at a traffic light and fired at near-point blank range.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/trial-begins-colombia-official-charged-murder-jaime-garzon/
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