An alleged soccer coach was in charge of following up to kidnap the soccer player’s father Luis Diazwhich was held for 12 days by the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and was released last Thursday.
According to the newspaper El Tiempo, about four months ago Yerdinson José Bolívar was presented at the Sowing Hope Foundationwhich has several football schools that it runs Luis Manuel Diazfather of the player Liverpooland began to approach the family.
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The subject’s mission was to infiltrate the Díaz family and establish routines to kidnap him.
Bolívar, alias “Arenca“, was arrested on October 31 in Canyonstown in the Caribbean department of La Guajira where he was kidnappedMane” Díaz and his wife, Cilenis Marulandawho was released on October 28.
Due to the kidnapping of the Colombian soccer player’s father, the Police reported yesterday that so far four people from the criminal gang have been captured in La Guajira.The cousins”.
Two other alleged suspects, identified with the aliases of “Marlon” and “The black”, were arrested in the early hours of this Saturday in Maicao (La Guajira).
The trap
According to the investigation, alias “Arenca” appears in the videos of the gas station where the Liverpool player’s parents were kidnapped in Barrancas.
“The false coach would have set a trap for them to show up at that time, 5:20 in the afternoon, to tank one of the family’s trucks. At that moment, his accomplices appeared on two motorcycles and took the couple away.”says El Tiempo.
Investigations revealed that the criminal appears several times in the same places that “Mane” Díaz frequently visited.
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Likewise, it was established that the mother of Luis Diaz She was released hours after the kidnapping because the family van in which they were going to be taken had no fuel.
Faced with this situation, the kidnappers decided to set her free and put “Mane” on a motorcycle and then handed him over to the guerrillas of the THE N with which the Government has peace dialogues.
The father of the Colombian player was handed over on Thursday to a humanitarian commission of the UN Mission in Colombia and of the Catholic Church in the foothills of the mountain range of Perijanear Barrancas.
