BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s legal professional basic on Tuesday mentioned her workplace had obtained arrest warrants for seven members of a insurgent group generally known as Segunda Marquetalia for the killing of Miguel Uribe, a conservative presidential hopeful who was shot within the head throughout a rally in Bogota in June 2025.
In an announcement, Lawyer Common Luz Adriana Camargo mentioned that Uribe’s killing final 12 months was “the results of a structured felony operation that concerned an city felony gang that was employed” by Segunda Marquetalia to kill the senator.
The legal professional basic mentioned that Uribe’s killing was deliberate by Kendry Téllez, a member of Segunda Marquetalia who had beforehand fought for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the guerrilla group that signed a peace take care of Colombia’s authorities in 2016.
Luciano Marín, a former FARC Commander who deserted the peace deal and based the Segunda Marquetalia group in 2018, was additionally charged with serving to to plan the killing, which was carried out by a youngster employed by a gang in Bogota.
Marín, who’s extra generally generally known as Iván Márquez, was final seen in public in 2024, when Segunda Marquetalia and the administration of Colombian President Gustavo Petro launched peace talks.
The negotiations between Marín and the Colombian authorities have been suspended on the finish of 2024, following a schism inside Segunda Marquetalia.
Prosecutors in Colombia had lengthy hinted that the insurgent group was concerned in Uribe’s homicide.
On Tuesday, officers introduced a reward of $1.3 million for info resulting in Marín’s seize, in addition to smaller rewards for info resulting in the seize of the opposite six members of Segunda Marquetalia who have been charged with homicide.
Uribe was talking in a park in Bogota, on June 7, 2025 when he was shot a number of instances by a youngster, who fled the scene however was shortly captured by Uribe’s bodyguards.
Uribe died two months later from his accidents.
Uribe’s killing marked a low level in Petro’s efforts to cut back crime in Colombia, the place drug traffickers and insurgent teams are combating for management of territory deserted by the FARC following the 2016 peace deal.
The assault on Uribe, a conservative who had promised to take a more durable stance in opposition to insurgent teams, was the primary assassination of a presidential candidate in Colombia in three a long time.
Colombia will maintain presidential elections in Could. If not one of the candidates will get greater than 50% of the vote, a runoff shall be held in June between the highest two contenders.
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