Authorities denied neo-paramilitary threats: Journalist .
Authorities denied neo-paramilitary threats: Journalist .
Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:24 Joey O'Gorman
Alejandro Arias, one of the ten journalists who received death threats from neo-paramilitary group "La Oficina del Caribe," said that the authorities have failed to protect them, even to the point of denying the existence of the group.
"The night we received the threats we met with the commander of the metropolitan police of Santa Marta .... he took the pamphlet and said that the Oficina del Caribe did not exist and to ignore the threats," said Arias to Colombia Reports on Thursday.
Arias and nine other northern Colombian journalists received death threats in the form of a letter "dumped" at the door of the Radio Caracol office in Magdalena, while two more received independent communications.
The chilling threats in which the journalists were told, "enemies deserve to die so they shut up forever," were issued after Arias conducted an interview with Jose Alburricin, alias "El Canoso," a demobilized paramilitary leader of the now-defunct Tayrona Resistance Bloc.
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