Police deny that they participated in the attack where "Gentil Duarte" died

Police deny that they participated in the attack where “Gentil Duarte” died

After the recent publication issued by the FARC dissidents, in which they confirm that Miguel Botache Santillana, alias ‘Gentil Duarte’, was assassinated, the director of the Police, general Jorge Luis Vargas, denied that an operation had been carried out to shoot him down.

“Although we don’t know if it’s apocryphal, if it’s real, we’re looking into that. Through different sources of information, we knew that ‘Gentil Duarte’ is dead, the information we have is that this part comes from the drug traffickers themselves, we are not clear if the second Marquetalia, the ELN, if it was them or if someone betrayed, we don’t know.” he held.

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Regarding the possible death of alias ‘Jhon Mechas’, he maintained that “we do not know if he is dead or alive, but we have not heard from him again through all the mechanisms that Colombian intelligence has.. From the Police we have deployed activities to further expand the circumstances of time, manner and place, where that individual would be at that time.

It should be remembered that a week ago, it was precisely Police sources, who confirmed the death of alias ‘Gentil Duarte’, leader of the FARC dissidents, in the middle of an attack with explosives in a camp located in El Zulia (Venezuela).

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Also, that, according to intelligence inquiries from the Colombian authorities, ‘Gentil Duarte’ had been sheltered in Venezuela for a couple of months, due to the constant operations of the Public Force.

Finally, it is said that after the death of Botanche Santillana, who would be left in charge of the illegal armed group would be Néstor Verá Fernández, alias ‘Iván Mordisco’who also initially participated in the peace negotiations of the government of Juan Manuel Santos in Havana (Cuba).

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