Paulin Karine Díaz García, model and presenter colombian, detained since 2017 and sentenced to 38 years in prison for kidnapping, remains awaiting an appeal. Her mother, Ana Deisy García, says that her daughter has been unjustly deprived of her freedom for 5 years and she requires all legal and political entities to review this case.
The story began on the night of December 29, 2011, when Hugo López Moncayo and Milton Caro Villamil They arrived at a nightclub in Menga, north of Cali. They were with two women and a friend named Jairo.
The two women would have been known by the merchant López and the lawyer Caro days before at the Cali Fair. One of them, when arrested, would have stated that she worked as a companion and stylist. The whereabouts of the other have not been established and it is only said that she was murdered.
The prosecution pointed to Paulin Karine Díaz as one of the participants in the deception and kidnapping of the two men who disappeared since dawn on December 30, 2011.
to the family of López He received messages demanding money for his release and then They sent them in a memory the photos of Hugo, Milton and Jairo, shirtless and chained.
In the following weeks, it seems that money was delivered to the kidnappers. Then he made sure that López would be released, so that he could expedite the payment of other money, but the friend named Jairo was released.
In 2014, the Prosecutor’s Office located one of López and Caro’s companions during the nights of the double disappearance. She said that she was an escort and one of her clients was Yiyi, a merchant, involved in the kidnapping and that he introduced her to the model Paulin Karine Diaz Garcia like his girlfriend.
The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the two hostages were tortured, drowned and thrown into the Cauca River.
Ana Deisy García, mother of the model and presenter, says that this process is a retaliation of the Gaula (special police forces) and a prosecutor, today outside the institution, because she denounced the participation of uniformed men in the disappearance of her husband, his brother and a cousin.
Paulin Karinebefore the authorities, assured that he was in the discotheque and left after 3:00 in the morning and that he had nothing to do with the events.
The sentence was applied for aggravated extortive kidnapping in a homogeneous contest with circumstances of greater punishability in response to criminal co-participation.
The mother of the model, who has been facing cancer since December, says that a witness has only wanted benefits from the Prosecutor’s Office.