During the panel Security and peace: elections without fear in the territoriesof the Electoral Peace Marathonthe director of the Police, Major General Carlos Fernando Triana, spoke about the progress in the case of the murder of presidential candidate of the Democratic Center Miguel Uribe Turbayin which they work to find new captures.
“We are going along the investigative line to find the determiner or determiners. The 180 investigators continue working with the Attorney General’s Office, collecting evidentiary material elements, and analyzing them in the field and in the territory. There are new captures, there is new news around“said Triana, who was very emphatic that with the results they hope to deliver, they will reach the perpetrators of the crime.
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Miguel Uribe Turbay
Along the same lines, he spoke about the Diamond Plan with which they seek to protect the pre-candidates. “Today we have a map with 104 municipalities that are priority. We continue working on that basis, but also within the framework of protective security, consolidate the Diamond Plan of the national Police to protect the candidates, pre-candidates, senators and representatives.“.
The latest that happened with those involved
One of the last things that happened in the case was the transfer this Tuesday morning from the Prosecutor’s bunker to the El Buen Pastor prison, in Bogotá, Katerine Andrea Martínezone of those captured.
The woman known by the alias ‘Gabriela’ would have participated in the logistics to commit the criminal attack on June 7 in El Golfito park, in the Modelia neighborhood. That day, a 15-year-old minor shot the candidate and senator for the Democratic Center, causing serious injuries, which led to his death on August 11.
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Alias Gabriela was captured in Florencia, Caquetá
‘Gabriela’ was detained by uniformed Police and CTI agents in Florencia, Caquetá, where they seized a cell phone and cash. Since then she was held in the Prosecutor’s Office bunker, from where she left as it was a transitional center for those prosecuted.
Also, last Saturday, October 4, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had filed the indictment, which seeks to have a judge sentence Carlos Eduardo Mora González for aggravated homicide, and manufacturing, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms.
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“He is credited with having driven and made available a vehicle previously used to recognize the place where the crime was perpetrated, transport others involved in the attack and deliver the firearm to the teenager who shot the victim. For this possible participation in the criminal plan they would have offered him a contribution of five million pesos“said the Prosecutor’s Office.
Last week, Mora González, known by the alias ‘El Veneco’, was convicted in another trial. In addition, he was charged with the crime of carrying and trafficking weapons after being captured in February 2024 with 11 5.56 caliber rifle cartridges, while traveling in a vehicle linked to a fraud case, in the rural area of Florencia, Caquetá.
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