Colombia's most controversial Supreme Court magistrate married convicted war criminal
by Adriaan Alsema July 29, 2019
Supreme Court magistrate Cristina Lombana never told the court she was married to a convicted war criminal, weekly Semana revealed on Sunday.
The latest revelation of journalist Daniel Coronell adds to a pile of controversies that have been accumulating around the magistrate President Ivan Duque‘s swore in last year.
Lombana, a former army major, previously failed to tell the court that she used to work for the defense attorney of former President Alvaro Uribe, who she was investigating for alleged witness tampering until her colleagues removed her.
Marrying a convicted murderer
Coronell demonstrated on Sunday that the magistrate’s omission to tell the court she had worked for the defense attorney whose client he was investigating was not her only secret.
Lombana also never told the court that she married former a convicted murderer, Lieutenant Colonel William Roberto del Valle, in 2002 and was married to him in 2004 while he again was murdering civilians to present them as guerrillas killed in combat, documents provided by the columnist indicate.
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Colombia. Goddamn.
