Colombia requests arrest warrant for ex-general implicated in journalist murder - Colombia news | Colombia Reports

7.10.12

Colombia requests arrest warrant for ex-general implicated in journalist murder - Colombia news | Colombia Reports: Colombia's Prosecutor General on Friday requested an international warrant for the arrest of retired colonel Jorge Plazas for his involvement in the 1999 murder of journalist and humorist Jaime Garzon.According to the prosecution Plazas allegedly delivered key information to the gunmen who shot the renown journalist in his car as he drove to work in Colombia's capital Bogota. The retired colonel is currently on the run from justice according to reports. -- No Justice for Colombian Journalist's Death 13 Years Later - Hispanically Speaking News - Press organizations, defenders of human rights, families and journalists gathered here Monday to commemorate the 13th anniversary of journalist and humorist Jaime Garzon’s murder and to protest the authorities’ failure to punish anyone for the crime. The Press Freedom Foundation, or Flip, the Ccajar lawyers’ group and dozens of journalists placed their floral tributes at the place where Garzon was slain and on his grave in a Bogota cemetery. A total of 4,748 flowers were left at the crime scene to “symbolize the number of days we have lived without Jaime Garzon,” the organizations said. Garzon was fatally shot on Aug. 13, 1999, while driving to the studios of Radio Net.