The young man was attacked in the middle of a robbery. His loved ones must raise more than $27 million to bring his remains to Colombia.
Colombia News.
The life story of Erbin Giovanny Galeano is another one of those Colombians who left the country in search of a better future.
He left the municipality of Sopó in Cundinamarca at the age of 22 as a high school graduate.
He left his native Colombia for Chile, his idea and goal was to improve his life, as well as that of his little six-year-old girl and the rest of his family. As her relatives told El Tiempo.
They indicated that when he arrived in the southern country he worked in different jobs, but with the passage of time and dedication he managed to become a hotel manager. Having the opportunity to get his documents, because he “always wanted to be legal,” highlights the medium.
A tragic February 6
His life was going very well, he had a job, he had managed to get his documents and he lived in the city of Valparaíso.
But unfortunately he was the victim of the violent ones who took his life last Sunday in the middle of a robbery.
“He was going to work. What they have told us is that the attackers were in a car, that he resisted and that is why they killed him with a shot to the chest and another to the leg. He was only 25 years old, he turned them on January 17, ”Andres Galeano, brother of Erbin, told the Bogotá newspaper.
They say that the young man lost his life there in a foreign country, where he had only come with the desire to work and improve himself. “My brother was a very good person, he was empathic, he endeared himself, he was spontaneous and what he set out to achieve was achieved. His dream was to help my mother and of course, her little daughter”.
Might be buried like NN
His loved ones found out about the attack of which he was a victim the same day, “a friend of my brother wrote to us: friend, I don’t have good news for you, your brother has just been admitted to a hospital. After 20 minutes they told us that he had not resisted and that he was no longer with us. He had already been robbed twice more.”
Regarding the case, they reported that it is under investigation and because it was a violent death, it is difficult to bring his remains to Colombia.
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“First you have to release the body and then another procedure. They tell us that we only have five days to repatriate, but that costs us 27 million pesos. We don’t have that money.” published.
They detailed that so far only the local president of Sopó has given them help to carry out the procedures and procedures with the National Government; but the news is not good.
They are in total uncertainty and only ask the authorities to provide them with support, as they fear that their loved one will be buried as NN.
