In a bittersweet assessment of the security of the capital of Antioquia, Mayor Federico Gutiérrez highlighted that the city currently maintains the lowest homicide rates in the last 40 years. However, the president expressed his deep concern about a variant that is gaining ground: intolerance.

According to Gutiérrez, while confrontations between criminal structures have decreased thanks to official operations, deaths within homes and among friends for trivial reasons are setting off alarm bells for the authorities.

“What makes me saddest is seeing how people kill each other among brothers, between families, among friends over issues of intolerance”said the mayor.

The figures reveal a complex picture; So far this year, nine homicides have been recorded under this modality, of which six occurred directly due to problems of coexistence within the home.

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Gutiérrez was emphatic in pointing out that, in many of these cases, the victims are not at risk when going out into the street, but rather their greatest danger is in the person closest to them or in their own family unit.

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Although compared to the year 2025 the cases of cohabitation have decreased (going from 13 to 6 on the same date), for the mayor the only acceptable figure is zero, ensuring that it is painful to see how families are destroyed due to the lack of dialogue.

Finally, Gutiérrez made an urgent call to citizens to recover the value of life and respect for neighbors.

He assured that the mayor’s office will continue to decisively combat criminal gangs in the streets, but warned that the public force cannot enter to mediate in every dining room or room in the city if there is no self-regulation of society.

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