Miguel Uribe TurbayColombian senator of Democratic Centerremain admitted to Severe state After receiving Two shots in the head and one in one legwhile heading a public act in Bogotá, Capital of Colombia. The last report of the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotá He indicated that he continues “with little response to medical interventions and management performed “.
His wife, María Claudia Tarazonahe said on social networks: “I ask, with all my heart, that they do not stop praying. Miguel needs a miracle ”This statement shocked the country that chose to show its solidarity.
The attack on Miguel Uribe Turbay in Colombia
The attack occurred the previous Saturday, in the park of Fontibónwhile Uribe Turbay headed a political activity. According to the president Gustavo Petrothe aggressor was a 14 -year -old teenagerwhich had integrated the state program Young people in peacealthough he retired by his own decision. The young man shot the senator from behind and was reduced in place by his custodians.
The Colombian president said in his X account that “The murderer demonstrated a completely conflicting personalitywithout the capacity to establish intersocial ties. It lasted two months in the Young In Peace programhe did not attend any kind and voluntarily retired. ”
The aggressor lived with his grandmother in the neighborhood Alcalá villassouth of the capital, due to the absence of their parents. Police focused part of the investigations in that area after, in a video recorded after the attack, the attacker be heard to mention the “pot of the pot”, Alleged leader of local drug trafficking.
The Colombia Prosecutor’s Officeheaded by Luz Adriana Camargoadvanced in the cause with 23 interviews, Two raids in houses of family members of the child and the analysis of more than A thousand recordings of surveillance cameras and private videos. Camargo reported that the used weapon was a 9 mm glock pistol with 18 bulletsacquired in Arizona, United Statesin 2020.
“We are perfectly aware that This boy is just a material executor”, Said Camargo, who also pointed out that the child could not be interrogated yet, since he was also gunshot and receives medical attention under strong custody. The government deployed 50 police and military personnel to guarantee your safety and prevent a pattern of murders from being affected that has affected other investigations.
One of the most recent background was the crime of Ecuadorian candidate Fernando Villavicenciooccurred in 2023whose material author and six other involved were killed in Ecuadorian prisons.
In parallel, the lawyer of the Uribe family, Victor Mosqueradeclared that they requested at least 23 occasions before the National Protection Unit (UNP) A reinforcement in the custody of the senator. The lawyer assured that the only concrete demand was the incorporation of an additional escort and a vehicle, but finally They denounced for negligence the head of the UNP.
In that line, President Petro fueled the controversy to state: “His protection scheme was strangely decreased on the day of the attack. 7 to 3 people. I asked in the Security Council the maximum depth in the investigation of this fact.”
The accusations and hypotheses of the authorities
The authorities, on the other hand, did not rule out any hypothesis. They considered possible the participation of criminal organizations, armed groups, narco structures and hidden actors. The Minister of Defense, Pedro SánchezHe argued that “whoever has committed the attack is doing everything possible to maintain his anonymity.”
To this new accusations were added. The journalist and also presidential candidate Vicky Dávila He said he received a warning from an intelligence military over an alleged “terrorist plan” orchestrated by Iván biteleader of the FARC dissidentswhich would include attacks against Uribe Turbay, María Fernanda Cabal And herself. According to their version, the material authors would be alias “Hair“Or alias”The big one”
Thorough It competed with Uribe Turbay by the presidential candidacy within the Democratic Centerwhile Dávila It is postulated as an independent, but also aspires to represent sectors of the right in the primaries that will be held before the general elections of the May 31 of next year.
The name of Iván bite was involved in the president’s plans Petro To achieve your project “Total peace”which included negotiations with armed groups. According to the opposition, these treatments allowed the FARC dissidents They were strengthened. In recent weeks, the Colombian army faced this armed group, and from the presidency it was indicated that Nibble It was injured.
The president himself Petroformer member of M-19he launched harsh criticism of Nibble: “It is the sad story of the degradation of insurgent struggle. It becomes a simple violent exercise against their people. Trachectism (drug trafficking) and bandidism.”
These statements revived old disputes, since the grandfather of Uribe Turbaythe former president Julio César Turbayhe ruled Colombia between 1978 and 1982 and carried out a strong repression against the M-19which Petro He has used in the past to attack the ex -president’s grandson.
While the senator continues in a critical condition, the country lives moments of high political voltage, with an increasing polarization and with the figure of Uribe Turbay Converted into a symbol of the opposition to the government’s labor reform project. The attack, in this context, intensified the climate of instability and suspicions about the existence of a major criminal network.
Source: Ambito
