Minor of Miguel Uribe did not accept charges: where is he?

The minor involved in the attack on the senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was presented on Tuesday before a criminal judge for adolescents. At the judicialization hearing, the Attorney General’s Office charged the crimes of Homicide in attempt y Manufacture, traffic, bearing or possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition. The teenager did not accept the charges.

The incident occurred last Saturday, June 7 in the Modelia neighborhood, a town in Fontibón, when the congressman of the Democratic Center party led a community meeting in a public park. According to preliminary investigations, the young man, just 15 years old, would have camouflaged among the attendees to approach the back and shoot at the politician, causing a serious head injury.

The prosecutor of the case, attached to the Criminal Responsibility Unit for Adolescents of the Bogotá Sectionpresented to the judge the material evidence collected during the stage of urgent acts. Among them stand out Videos of security cameras, witness testimonies and the seized firearma 9 mm caliber -gock gun, which was held by the child at the time of capture.

Capture in flagrance and judicial measure

In his attempt to escape, the adolescent was achieved by Uribe’s escorts, being injured in one of his limbs. The apprehension was given In flagrancea few meters from the place of the attack. The authorities assured that the child also shot at the security agents during the persecution.

The criminal judge of adolescents who knew the case determined to impose preventive internment measure in a specialized centerprecautionary measure that will remain while the judicial process against him progresses. The young man was already transferred to prosecutor’s bunkerwhere it remains in custody and surveillance of the authorities.

The revelation of the profile of the alleged hitman has caused national shock. It is a teenager who, according to police and government information, He was a mother orphan from a very young age y Live without the presence of the fatherwho lives abroad. The minor was in the care of a maternal aunt in the town of Engativá.

President Gustavo Petro spoke about the case, indicating that the young man had already been identified by social programs of the district due to his conflicting behavior. Was included in the initiative “Young people in peace”but abandoned the process after two months, without attending classes or showing significant advances in its reintegration process.

Ongoing investigation: Intellectual authors and criminal network

The Prosecutor’s Office continues with the inquiries to establish Who would be behind the attack and if the young man was instrumentalized by organized crime networks. A key aspect of research is to determine the degree of autonomy of the minor in the execution of the attack and if he acted under direct orders of third parties.

One of the pieces that could shed light on these aspects is The woman who spoke with the least minutes before the attackwho has already given the authorities and is collaborating with justice. They also advanced Adolescent housing raidsas part of the collection of evidence that allow to unravel the criminal structure behind the attack.

With the preventive internment measure already decreed, the process now enters its judgment phase. The minor, despite the seriousness of the facts, cannot be judged as an adultso it would face a maximum penalty of 8 years of deprivation of liberty in a teenagers centeraccording to the childhood and adolescence code.