A/HRC/45/CRP.11 932. The officers demanded to know Colonel García Paloma’s whereabouts. They beat his son in front of the women. DGCIM officers held guns to Ms. Padilla and her daughter’s heads, demanding they answer questions about the colonel. Officers searched the house and seized belongings, including computers and cellular phones. They put personal belongings into suitcases, including clothing, shoes, perfume, electronics, and kitchenware. 1659 933. Officers handcuffed and hooded Ms. Padilla and her son and drove them away in separate vehicles. They threatened the remaining three young women – Ms. Granadillo, Ms. Padilla’s daughter and their cousin – not to leave the house or contact anyone, if they wanted to live. The remaining officers took the family’s cars (a 2006 silver Toyota Burbuja and a 2012 black Jeep Grand Cherokee)1660 and left at approximately 3.20 p.m.1661 934. Ms. Padilla told the Mission she tried to calm her captors while in the vehicle, asking for a cigarette. They removed her hood. She saw that they entered Caracas, passing Plaza Venezuela. Near the entrance to La Carlota they hooded her again. A few minutes later, she heard a gate open and children playing. From the bottom of the hood, she could see a garden as they removed her from the car. She became frightened, realizing they had brought her to a house and not an office or detention centre.1662 935. Ms. Padilla and her son arrived at the house simultaneously. Officers put them in a bedroom and left them there for several hours. More officers arrived at the house. They separated Ms. Padilla from her son, taking her to a laundry room at the exterior of the house. They interrogated her about Colonel Garcia Palomo and his relationships with Oscar Pérez, María Corina Machado and others. She told the officers she had high blood pressure and needed medication. The next day, they returned with her blood pressure medicine, and she realized they must have returned to her house. 1663 936. “El Capitán” led Ms. Padilla’s interrogation over the next two days. He demanded to know why a wife would not know her husband’s whereabouts. The officers told Ms. Padilla that it the fault of her husband that she was in the situation. “El Capitán” became angry and pulled her by the hair. One of the female officers struck Ms. Padilla in the face. Officers gave her eight electric shocks, to her ribs, legs, chest and back. Her interrogators repeatedly grabbed her face, dislodging a dental crown, which she swallowed. 1664 First Detention of Ms. Granadillo and Two Others (2 February 2018) 937. The DGCIM officers who arrested Ms. Padilla and her son had left Ms. Granadillo unguarded at the house with Ms. Padilla’s daughter and Ms. Granadillo’s cousin, threatening them not to leave. During the early hours of the morning on 2 February 2018, Ms. Padilla’s daughter left surreptitiously, as the women feared the officers might return to detain her.1665 938. At around 8 or 9 a.m. on 2 February 2018, Ms. Padilla’s son’s girlfriend came to the house looking for him, as he had not answered his telephone. Shortly thereafter, “El Capitán” and two other officers returned to the house. They asked where Ms. Padilla’s daughter was. When they failed to find her, they detained her son’s girlfriend, without providing an arrest warrant.1666 939. Three officers (including one female officer), returned to the house at 8 p.m. The female official searched the house, putting more personal items into a suitcase. The other two 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 186 Ibid. Investigator Field Report, Fifth Prosecutor’s Office Investigation Division, Public Prosecutor’s Office of Colombia, 14 February 2018, on file with the Mission. Text messages on file with the Mission. Mission Interview with Sorbay Padilla on 22 June 2020. Ibid. Mission Interview with Sorbay Padilla on 22 June 2020; Investigator Field Report, Fifth Prosecutor’s Office Investigation Division, Public Prosecutor’s Office of Colombia, 14 February 2018, on file with the Mission. Mission Interview with Ariana Granadillo, 18 May 2020. Ibid.