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Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a blimpish statesmanlike hopeful, was successful “serious” information Sunday (June 8, 2025) pursuing country for a gunshot coiled astatine a governmental rally a time earlier, Bogota’s politician said.
Mayor Carlos Galán visited the Fundación Santa Fe session to explicit solidarity with the household of the 39-year-old Senator.
“He survived the procedure; these are captious moments and hours for his survival,” said Mr Galán aboriginal Sunday (June 8, 2025) aft receiving accusation from the aesculapian unit astatine the clinic.
The infirmary said Sunday (June 8, 2025) that Mr Uribe Turbay was recovering successful intensive attraction aft undergoing neurosurgery and a process connected his near thigh. His information was described arsenic “extremely serious,” and his prognosis was reserved.
“Miguel continues to combat hard for his life, and I inquire each of you to support praying fervently,” Mr Uribe Turbay’s wife, María Claudia Tarazona, said successful a statement.
Former Presidents Álvaro Uribe and César Gaviria visited the clinic, on with Senators, metropolis assembly members and different politicians, including erstwhile Senator Ingrid Betancourt.
The onslaught took spot successful a parkland successful the Fontibon neighbourhood successful Bogota, erstwhile equipped assailants changeable him from behind, said the right-wing Democratic Center, which was the enactment of erstwhile president Mr Uribe. The men are not related.
Images circulating connected societal media showed a idiosyncratic firing respective shots astatine the Senator from behind, seemingly hitting his caput earlier helium collapsed.
The Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating the shooting, said the Senator received 2 gunshot wounds successful the attack, which besides wounded 2 others. Their identities and conditions person not been disclosed.
The bureau said a 15-year-old lad was arrested astatine the country with a firearm. He was injured successful the limb and was recovering astatine different clinic, authorities said. Defence Minister Pedro Sánchez added that implicit 100 officers are investigating who was down the attack.
Elizabeth Dickinson, a information expert astatine Crisis Group, told The Associated Press that the battle connected the Senator was a throwback to a clip successful Colombia “when unit converted into a governmental instrumentality astatine the highest levels.”
The incidental has frightened Colombians, she added, due to the fact that it highlights a recurring rhythm of unit “even wrong families that person been suffering its consequences for decades.”
The intelligence writer of the shooting, she said, “clearly had the volition to disturbance up the country.”
The Colombian Senate called for nationalist unity Sunday (June 8, 2025) successful a statement, emphasizing that governmental leaders and lawmakers look risks successful a polarized nation.
Mr Uribe Turbay is the governmental heir of his grandfather, erstwhile President Julio César Turbay who was successful bureau from 1978-82. His mother, Diana Turbay, was a writer who was kidnapped and killed successful 1991 during a failed rescue attempt. Her decease came during 1 of the astir convulsive periods successful the past of the South American country, then-plagued by cause cartel violence.
The Senator announced his statesmanlike bid successful aboriginal March. Colombia volition clasp a statesmanlike predetermination connected May 31, 2026, marking the extremity of President Gustavo Petro’s term. Mr Petro, the country’s archetypal leftist leader, is not eligible for re-election.
Outside the Fundación Santa Fe clinic, dozens of radical gathered successful supplication for Mr Uribe Turbay’s recovery.
Late connected Saturday (June 7, 2025), aft starring an bonzer Security Council session, Mr Petro, Colombia’s archetypal leftist President, promised “complete transparency” successful the probe and to find retired who was down the attack. He besides promised an probe into immoderate failures by the Senator’s bodyguards.
The President cancelled a planned travel to France “due to the seriousness of the events,” according to a statesmanlike statement.
World leaders and elder officials, including from the United States, Chile, Ecuador, and the European Union, condemned the unit and expressed enactment for the Colombian radical and Mr Uribe Turbay’s family.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said connected X that the “United State condemns successful the strongest imaginable presumption the attempted assassination of Senator Miguel Uribe.” He urged Mr Petro “to dial backmost the inflammatory rhetoric and support Colombian officials.”
“This is simply a nonstop menace to ideology and the effect of the convulsive leftist rhetoric coming from the highest levels of the Colombian government,” Mr Rubio said.
Published - June 09, 2025 04:55 americium IST
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