Lucho Herrera, the glory of Colombian cycling, pointed out by crimes against humanity: thus replied

“I have never belonged to criminal organizations or tried to cause damage to any person,” said the glory of Colombian sport.

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Luis “Lucho” Herrera, idol of Colombian sport and first Latin American to win the return to Spain, faces one of the most serious accusations that an athlete has received in the country: His alleged participation in the forced disappearance and murder of four peasants in Fusagasugá, Cundinamarca, in 2002.

The revelation was made last Sunday in news one, based on a judicial sentence of the Fourth Criminal Court of the Fusagasugá Circuit, which ordered the compuls with copies to the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the former cyclist for the crimes of aggravated forced disappearance and aggravated homicide.

A complaint with name and details

Three former members of the peasant self -defense groups of Casanare, today imprisoned, directly pointed to Herrera as the instigator of the crimes.

According to the testimonies of alias’ Ojitos’, ‘Camargo’ and ‘Genuer whom he accused of being guerrillas, supposedly to avoid kidnapping.

However, the paramilitaries themselves recognized after the victims – Guerrero Jiménez, Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Martínez, José del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez and Diuviseldo Torres Vega – had no links with the FARC.

As they said, Herrera’s real interest would have been stripping them of their lands, adjacent to its farm.

Testimonials include chilling details: Meetings with Herrera in their farm and in a restaurant, delivery of envelopes with photographs of the peasants and $ 40 million in cash to finance weapons and logistics, and the description of the kidnapping and dismembered of the bodies, allegedly buried in a Silvania estate.

Justice moves

The case, which the Prosecutor’s Office already qualifies as a crime against humanity – so much, imprescriptible – has resulted in an order of exploration and exhumation in the Herrera estate.

The witness statements are contained in a 23 -page judgment issued on April 7, 2025, which condemned alias ‘Ojitos’ at 22 and a half years in prison.

Lucho Herrera’s response

In a brief pronouncement sent to the W Radio, Herrera denied any link with the facts: “I will give all the explanations to the authorities, but I can assure that I am oblivious to the facts that were news”

He claimed to be consulting with his lawyer to appear before the Prosecutor’s Office.

Relatives of the victims demand that justice be done. Fabián Rodríguez, a relative of two of the disappeared, recalled that several family members worked for Herrera. «My grandfather worked with him, my mother too. We want the truth to be known“He said.