It was learned who kidnapped the father of Colombian soccer player Luis Díaz

This is the latest that is known so far about the kidnapping of Luis Díaz’s father:

The guerrilla of National Liberation Army (ELN)currently in peace negotiations in Colombiais responsible for the kidnapping of the soccer player’s father Luis DiazThe Colombian Government reported this Thursday.

Kidnapping “was perpetrated” on Saturday in the department of La Guajira (north) “by a unit belonging to the ELN”he assured in a statement Otty Patinoofficial chief negotiator before the largest rebel group on the continent.

This was the kidnapping that went around the world:

According to local media Luis Manuel Diaz and Cilenis Marulanda, parents of the soccer player, were kidnapped after passing through a service station. Armed men on motorcycles intercepted and kidnapped them in the municipality of Canyons (north), close to the border with Venezuela in the department of La Guajira and where the indigenous family is from. Images from a security camera, whose location in the town verified the AFPshow a high-end pickup truck followed by a motorcycle.

Hours later, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroconfirmed that the player’s mother had been rescued by the police, but that the public force was still looking for the father.

The operation includes at least 200 uniformed personnel, including police, soldiers, elite commandos, cartographers, judicial police and pilots of ships specialized in search and rescue.

In a press conference on Sunday, the attorney general, Francisco Barbosasaid that the footballer’s father “could” be in Venezuela.

Three senior officials of the Public Force expanded details of the investigation this Monday.

The director of the National Policegeneral William Salamancareported that its troops make a “sweeping (…) house by house” and ask for information that leads to the whereabouts of Diazfor which they offer a reward of USD 48,000.

“We have clarity about people who could have been linked to the incident (…) There is prior planning”added the deputy director of the Policegeneral Nicolas Zapata.

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On his side the colonel Giovanni Montanezdirector of the elite military unit against kidnapping and extortion (Gaula), confirmed to Blu Radio that “so far no demand has been made (…) no call has been received”in the style of an extortive kidnapping.

Colombia coordinate the search with the office of Interpol of Venezuelaaccording to Salamancabut none of the higher-ups confirmed whether the father of Luis Diaz He was transferred to the other side of the border.

Canyonsa municipality of about 38,000 inhabitants, is located in a region where common crime, paramilitary groups such as the Conquering Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevadadissidents of the FARC who rejected the peace agreement 2016 and the guerrilla THE N.

The soccer player’s mother “didn’t show anything special” about the captors after their rescue, according to the colonel Montanez. Authorities are investigating whether it is a group made up of Colombians or Venezuelans.

Colombia It is a country crossed by six decades of armed conflict that leaves 9.5 million victims, 38,028 from them kidnapped.