On 15 July 2020, Carmine Mario Paciolla, an Italian citizen working with the United Nations (UN) Verification Mission in Colombia, was found dead in his home in San Vicente del Caguán, in the Department of Caquetá, Colombia. The day after Paciolla’s death, a team of the Special Investigation Unit of the UN Department of Safeguard and Security collected all his personal belongings and cleaned up the apartment where he was living. No official of the General Prosecutor of Colombia or of the Colombian judicial police was present at this time. The staff of the UN Verification Mission was reminded that they were under an obligation to maintain confidentiality.^[1] The Italian judicial authorities have, since August 2020, sought the cooperation of the UN to clarify the facts of the case and establish any responsibility.^[2]