The suspect in the attack on the production team of the series ‘Sin senos sí hay paraíso’ in a sector of downtown Bogota suffered from a “psychotic disorder”, authorities revealed Monday after the release of videos with the sequence of events in which three people died, including the assailant.
“The main hypothesis points to a confusion of identity: the aggressor, who suffered from a psychotic disorder and a history of schizophrenia, would have confused the workers with the security personnel of a nearby institute with whom he had an altercation the day before,” explained this Monday the commander of the Bogota Police, General Giovanni Cristancho.
Sin senos sí hay paraíso’ is a successful television series now in its fourth season and is based on the novel ‘Sin tetas no hay paraíso’, by Colombian writer and former senator Gustavo Bolívar, about women who are paid by drug traffickers to undergo plastic surgery to make them look more attractive.
According to authorities, the man identified as José Cubillos, had no intention of stealing or breaking into the set, but his action was motivated by his state of “disorganized thinking”.
The reconstruction of the events, based on the analysis of security camera videos by the police, showed that the first victim was on a street in the Los Laches neighborhood, leaning against a fence, when Cubillos approached him from behind and inflicted a serious wound to his neck with a knife.
The attack provoked an immediate reaction from those on the scene and led to a scuffle that ended with the death of the assailant and another member of the production team of the series.
After the attack, four people linked to the production were arrested, but a judge ordered their release on Monday, considering that they acted in legitimate self-defense in the face of the seriousness of the aggression against their colleague.
Gremio’s reaction to the attack on the set of ‘Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso’.
The National Association of Audiovisual Workers (ANTA) expressed its “deep sorrow and dismay” and warned that what happened “cannot be treated as an isolated event”, while demanding the reinforcement of security protocols in filming.
Likewise, the union positioned on social networks the trend ‘Silence on the set’, indicating that saving resources in hiring private security can leave actors, extras and technicians exposed in outdoor locations, and calling for the adoption of mandatory protocols by production companies, channels and platforms.
For its part, the production company TIS Studios, in charge of the filming, regretted the death of its collaborators and assured that “the events occurred in an area outside the filming location” and that the assailant “was not part of the production”.
The case was also echoed by the political class, where presidential candidate Roy Barreras, a physician by profession, stated that the tragedy “could have been avoided” and called for the implementation of protocols for the management of patients with aggressive mental disorders.
“A mentally ill person is not controlled with comparendos (sanctions). He should have been interned for treatment and to protect the environment,” he said.
While the Attorney General’s Office advances in the investigation and the shooting remains suspended, authorities in Bogota convened a security council for Monday to address this event that has caused commotion in the city, reported Agencia EFE.
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