The minor who murdered Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was sanctioned on Wednesday with seven years of deprivation of liberty for the crimes of homicide in the degree of attempt and manufacturing, traffic, carrying or possession of firearms.
The Prosecutor’s Office detailed in a statement that by the sanction “the minor must remain seven years deprived of liberty in a specialized care center.”
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The hitman, according to the authorities, is a 15 -year -old boy whose name remains in reserve For his status as a minor and who was captured in flagrance on June 7 in Bogotá, minutes after the attack on the senator of the right -wing opposition party.
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The sentence, issued only 80 days after the attack attack in which Uribe Turbay suffered serious head wounds That they caused death on August 11, it is due to the fact that their process was processed by the criminal responsibility system for adolescents, which in Colombia judges young people from 14 to 18 yearswith sentences of up to eight years in specialized centers.
The lawyer Víctor Mosquera, who represents the family of Uribe Turbay, said that “under the law of childhood and adolescence one of the highest to the child was imposed,” the crime committed.
“We respect the decision, but that sanction is never equated with the life that snapped or with the pain caused. This law encourages the crime to use minors without real and effective punishment,” Mosquera said in X.
Child participation in crime
The Prosecutor’s Office said that after being convinced to execute the attack, the child was taken to the Modelia neighborhood, where Uribe Turbay performed a rally, in a car driving Carlos Eduardo Mora González, one of the six captured by this crime.
The young man “received a 9 mm Gock pistol from Elder José Arteaga Hernández”, who was also arrested and is accused of coordinating the attack.
Miguel Uribe Turbay, presidential candidate in Colombia, died this month after being attacked during a campaign act in June.
“Subsequently, he descended from the vehicle, walked to the El Golfito park where the victim participated in a political concentration and shot him. In the flight through the streets of the sector, The adolescent was intercepted by members of the precautionary security schemeand made available to the authorities for judicialization, ”added the Prosecutor’s Office.
The sanction issued by the Judge of the Knowledge of the Criminal Responsibility System for Adolescents is of first instance and “against him proceed the resources of law”, according to the information of the Prosecutor’s Office.
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On August 11, the attorney general of Colombia, Luz Adriana Camargo, said that the crime was typified as magnicide, that is, homicide of a person because of their political or social relevance.
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“The material author and those who participated in the preparation and planning of the magnicide already respond to justice,” said Camargo, who stressed that the search for the determinants “without ruling out any hypothesis” continues, referring to suspicions communicated by the police that the second Marquetalia, A dissent of the old FARCbe the one behind the attack.
Less than a year after the presidential elections of 2026, the crime of Uribe Turbay has revived the fear that the country repeats the episodes of political violence of the 1990 campaign, when three presidential candidates were killed: Luis Carlos Galán, Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa and Carlos Pizarro.
The Government has already headed three extraordinary security meetings to investigate and evaluate the findings obtained by the authorities.
