Court: Colombia must pay for innocent man's death
BOGOTA (AP) — A top court has found the Colombian government liable for the police killing of an innocent construction worker during the botched rescue of a prominent journalist nearly 19 years ago.
The Council of State ruled that the Defense Ministry and national police were responsible for the January 1991 killing of German Eduardo Giraldo and ordered the state to pay his family $179,000 in damages.
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