Antécédents de l'affaire: Candelaria Barrios Acosta
Candelaria Barrios Acosta a été menacée de mort à de nombreuses occasions. Le 15 octobre 2015, de nouveaux tracts menaçant les membres de l'organisation Movimiento de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado – MOVICE (Mouvement des victimes de crimes d'État), dont Mme Candelaria Barrios Acostan, ont été retrouvés près du domicile de la défenseuse Ingrid Vergara Chávez à Sucre.
Candelaria Barrios Acosta est membre du Movimiento de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado - MOVICE (Mouvement des victimes de crimes d'État) dans le département de Sucre, et elle est la sœur de Carmelo de Jesus Barrios Acosta, assassiné par les paramilitaires le 15 novembre 2006.
On 15 October 2015, a new pamphlet threatening members of the human rights organisation Movimiento de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado – MOVICE (Movement of Victims of State Crimes) was near human rights defender Ms Ingrid Vergara Chávez in Sucre's home. Named in the pamphlet were Ingrid Vergara, Mr Juan David Díaz Chamorro, and Ms Candelaria Barrios Acosta and Ms Rosario Montoya. MOVICE is a human rights organisation which monitors human rights violations committed by the state in the context of the armed conflict and calls for state agents and paramilitaries to be brought to justice. Ingrid Vergara, Juan David Díaz and Candelaria Barrios are members of the Sucre chapter, whilst Rosario Montoya is a member of the Atlantic chapter. The new pamphlet, which is signed by the paramilitary group “Las Águilas Negras”, names the above-mentioned human rights defenders, amongst others. Candelaria Barrios appears with the surname Verrio, however, the human rights defenders have analysed that it must be in reference to her. This pamphlet immediately follows a pamphlet which first appeared on 20 September 2015, threatening other members of MOVICE, as well as other human rights organisations and defenders. Ingrid Vergara is the technical secretary of the Sucre chapter of MOVICE and is supposedly receiving protection measures from the governmental Unidad Nacional de Protección– UNP (National Protection Unit) due to her risk. However, this protection has never been properly implemented, leaving the human rights defender in a vulnerable situation to threats such as these. Ingrid Vergara and Juan David Díaz have been particularly targeted in 2015. On 5 June 2015, a statement signed by the self-declared group for social cleansing, “Los Urabeños”, was sent to various email accounts. The statement signalled many human rights defenders, including Ingrid Vergara and Juan David Diaz, as military targets. It further declared that “leftist political indoctrination of civil society” would not be permitted. The pamphlet which was found on 15 October 2015 has a similar message.
