The 15 -year -old accused of firing Senator Miguel Uribe has been charged with the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office for Homicide attempt and for illegal weapons. However, the child has declared himself innocent, so he has been held in a cell at the tax headquarters. In a hearing reserved before a judge specialized in youth justice, the adolescent has rejected the charges.
The young man was arrested minutes after the attack, when he fled the place injured in one leg. The Prosecutor’s Office has accused the child for the crimes of attempt to homicide and illegal possession of firearms. Besides, He has asked the judge for preventive internment of the child while investigations on the attack continue.
At the Hearing for the imputation of charges, the judge accepted the request of the Prosecutor’s Office and imposed the adolescent “a preventive internment measure in a specialized center.” For being a minor, It cannot be sent to a prison and the maximum penalty it faces is eight years.
Prosecutor’s Office have confirmed to Efe that the detainee already It is held in a special area of the ‘bunker’main headquarters of the accusing entity. So far, the authorities have not established the mobile of the attack or identified a possible intellectual author.
Miguel Uribe continues in a critical condition
Meanwhile, Miguel Uribe continues in “critical state” in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), but “stable”, as reported by the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotá, where he is still admitted. Dozens of people pray in silence from the moment of the attack For the recovery of the senator and his wife María Claudia Tarazona has called for unity and has assured that her husband is “a warrior who continues to fight for his life.”
THE ATTACK AGAINST URIBE TURBAY It has happened in the first bars of the electoral campaign For the elections that Colombia will celebrate next year and in a climate of growing political tension, accentuated by the president’s attempts to impose changes in the labor regulations to which the most conservative sectors oppose.
The attack has not only exacerbated political tension, but has shocked and revived the fear that Colombia repeats The tragic episodes of political violence of the 90swhen three presidential candidates were killed.
