Luis Manuel Díaz, footballer’s father Luis Diazof the Liverpool and of the Colombian team, was released this Thursday after twelve days kidnapped by the guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (THE N), official sources reported.
The player’s father was handed over to a humanitarian commission of the Mission of the UN in Colombia and the Catholic church in the foothills of the mountain range of Perijanear the town of Canyonsin the Caribbean department of La Guajira, where he was kidnapped on October 28, and was transferred by helicopter to Valleduparcapital of the department of Cesar.
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“We thank God for the deliverance of the Mr. Luis Diaz! Mons. Francisco Ceballosbishop of Riohacha and mons. Hector Henaodelegate for relations Church-State, who formed the humanitarian commission in charge of facilitating his release”expressed in its X account the Episcopal Conference of Colombia.
He Episcopate accompanied the publication of two photographs in which the soccer player’s father can be seen, wearing a brown jacket and a sports cap, being attended to by personnel from the Mission of the UN in Colombia and accompanied by the two bishops.
From the airport Alfonso Lopezof Valledupar The helicopter left this morning MI8 Russian-made with the humanitarian commission that received the father of Luis Diaz in a mountainous area in the north of the country at the hands of the Front of Northern War of the THE N.
The device landed at that airport at 11:08 local time (16:08 GMT, 17:08 CET), and minutes then the newly released He went down on his own feet and walked to a vehicle that was waiting for him on the track to be taken, presumably, to a medical center.
“Long live freedom and peace“said the Colombian president, Gustavo Petrowhen reposting a news story about the release of Luis Manuel Diaz.
Last Monday the near 300 police and Colombian soldiers who were looking for the father of Luis Diaz They began to withdraw from their area of operations to facilitate their release.
The decision to withdraw the troops to safe points came hours after the THE N said that the release of Luis Manuel Diaz had been delayed by military presence in the zone.
It is expected that, after undergoing medical examinations, the recently released man will be transferred to Canyonsthe city where his family lives and where he was kidnapped on October 28.
