Colombian authorities handle Three hypothesis about the reasons for attackagainst senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribethat remains between life and death after receiving Two shots during a rally In Bogotá. The Minister of Defense, Pedro Sánchez, has indicated in recent hours, after an extraordinary security council held this Sunday, in which the president, Gustavo Petro participated.
Speaking to the press, Sánchez explained that in the meeting “some hypotheses of why this attack was committed” were evaluated and that “some of them cannot be determined or distorted.” “We could group them into three large groups: if it was directly because it is Miguel Uribe Turbayor if it was for being politician and everything that goes around his political party or if it is about destabilize the government National, through attacks on some members who think differently to this government, “he said.
Uribe Turbay, 39 and belonging to the Uribista match Democratic centerfrom the right and opposition to the Petro Executive, he received on Saturday Two bullet impacts. A person who was among a group of followers who listened to his speech during a political act in the Modelia neighborhood of the Colombian capital shot him.
The politician has undergone two operations at the Santa Fe Foundation, one of the most prestigious medical centers in the country, while the alleged aggressor, a 15 -year -old, was arrested in possession of a gun.
The defense minister has warned that the attack “has a Impact on stability“From the country, since Colombia is at the beginning of an electoral process for the legislative and presidential elections of next year. Thus, Sánchez has asked citizens” wisdom, prudence and respect “because, as he has denounced, in social networks they have found” hate language “and other manifestations that” are not proper of a mature democracy or a citizen culture. “
Politicians of all parties have asked to put aside the incendiary and aversion speeches for those elections and some have directly pointed to President Petro, whom they accuse of fostering polarization.
On ongoing investigation, the Director of the Police, General Carlos Fernando Triana, has indicated that there are 188 police from different agencies working with the Prosecutor’s Office to try to clarify the case. Although, according to local media, the detainee was seized a mobile phone that supposedly contained information that could help in the investigations, Triana has denied it, clarifying that “in the place of the events there was no cell phone.”
For his part, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, who has also participated in the meeting, has advanced that Petro will meet with the leaders of the parties to deal with the issue of electoral violence and guarantees for elections. “What the Ministry of Interior and the government itself asks is that the insinuations of responsibility for that crime are over, because that moves us away from the truth and getting away from the truth we are much easier to fall into the abyss of violence,” he warned.
The minister has denounced that even some family members have received Threats After the attack on Uribe, who have spread to Antonella Petro, daughter of the president. In this regard, Petro has pointed out in social networks that in the Security Council has ordered “the expansion of the security systems of the members of the opposition and the families of the members of the national government, given the new direct threats against the children of ministers and president.”
