1. Aruban police accidently kill Columbians?
Two Columbians killed in the Drug Arrest were not armed
and had no drugs as was reported earlier by Aruban
authorities. 11/15/2012
Aruba has allegedly announced its decision to not investigate the killings of two
Colombian citizens as a result of blatant police error in Aruba, local media
reported Monday.
The Aruban authorities' decision to not investigate the police shooting and killing
of two Colombians, caught on video by a cell phone, was allegedly caused by a
chain of impudent errors made by policemen on the Dutch island of Aruba on
February 22, 2012.
News network Noticias Uno reported Monday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of Aruba gave the Colombian consul a diplomatic note explaining that no one
would be prosecuted for the deaths that resulted in the police action in Aruba's
capital of Oranjestad.
The submitted document apparently admitted that one of the police officers
while trying to open the car door where the Colombians were seated in traffic
"accidentally" fired a shot, not injuring anyone but consequently instigated other
police officers to open fire on the vehicle in confusion, resulting in killing the two
Colombian men in the car. After reaching this conclusion, Aruban authorities
decided that there was no reason to prosecute any of the officers involved,
including the first police officer "because his accidental shooting was not fatal,"
despite the fact that the seemingly innocuous error ended in the Colombians'
demise.
Initial local reports of the incident relayed various versions of what happened and
why police surrounded and fired on the car in the first place, including the

2. Colombian's supposed involvement in robbery and that the Colombians in the car
open fired on the police first.
Despite the confusion, it seems to be that the Colombians were wanted by the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for drug trafficking charges, leading to the
police shooting in the middle of traffic in a downtown shopping area of the island,
killing the two Colombian citizens and arresting a third, reported the island's
newspaper The Daily Herald.
The Aruba authorities have been very quiet about the actual events since
February and originally stated that large amounts of cocaine were found in the
car, according to local Aruba online news source, AVS.
Other sources, such as Noticias Uno, however have confirmed that no drugs or
arms were actually discovered in the vehicle.