They capture another involved in the murder of Miguel Uribe: there are already seven

The Attorney General’s Office captured this Saturday in Bogotá to Harold Daniel Barragán Ovallepointed out of having participated in the planning of the murder of the senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, which occurred on June 7 in the capital.

According to the accusing entityBarragán is suspected of having intervened in the hiring of 15 -year -old adolescent who shot the congressman and that was captured in flagrance minutes after the attack.

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The child was sanctioned last Wednesday with seven years of deprivation of liberty in a specialized centerthe maximum penalty that the criminal responsibility system for adolescents contemplates in Colombia.

He Major General Carlos Fernando Triana, General Director of the PoliceHe said Barragán, with more than ten years of criminal history, would have participated from planning to the execution of the attack perpetrated on June 7 in the Modelia neighborhood.

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This is the seventh captured within the investigationand will be presented to a judge of control of guarantees for the legalization of its capture and the imputation of charges for aggravated homicide, aggravated crime concert, use of minors for the commission of crimes and illegal bearing of aggravated firearms.

Uribe Turbay, 39, was a senator of the Democratic Center Right Party and was emerging as a presidential candidate for the 2026 elections. Seriously injured in the attack, he died on August 11 after staying more than two months hospitalized.

The General Prosecutor, Luz Adriana Camargotypified the crime as Mogidide And he assured that, in addition to the material authors already processed, the authorities continue after the track of the determinants, without ruling out the participation of the dissent of the FARC known as the second Marquetalia.

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The murder of Uribe Turbay, the first magnicide of a presidential candidate in more than three decades, has shaken the presidential campaign less than a year after the elections and revived the fears that Colombia repeats episodes of political violence such as those of 1990, when Luis Carlos Galán, Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa and Carlos Pizarro were killed.

EFE