US EditionColombian authorities charge 15-year-old with attempted murder of presidential candidate
- Colombian Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot twice in the head and once in the leg on June 7 during a campaign rally in a park in western Bogota.
- The attack occurred amid Colombia’s worst security crisis in a decade, with Uribe's lawyers saying his repeated security requests were ignored and national violence linked to armed groups rising.
- Authorities arrested a 15-year-old suspected shooter who pleaded not guilty and claimed he acted “for money, for my family,” along with an accomplice and a woman suspected of aiding the attack.
- Doctors reported Uribe showed signs of neurological improvement and hemodynamic stabilization, though President Gustavo Petro said the recovery “cannot be explained by science.”
- Uribe's party suspended campaign events for the 2026 election due to security concerns, while investigations continue amid fears of renewed political violence linked to criminal and armed factions.
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The 39-year-old senator received three shots a week ago, two of them in the head, during an act in Bogotá. The alleged gunman, a 15-year-old teenager, and an accomplice have already been captured.
Bogotá. Investigations are underway to find those responsible for the attack suffered by the Colombian senator and pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, on June 7 in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, where he was shot three times. On the day of the incident, the authorities managed to capture the hit man who repeatedly fired at the senator and who left him seriously injured, currently being held in an intensive care unit at the Santa Fe Foundation c…
On Saturday, in the middle of a rally in the district of Fontibón, Bogotá, a teenager pointed and shot two shots at presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, in an attack that caused terror in the square and still has the MP in the hospital. The other 12 shots were heard later, while the young man fled. The attack occurred at around 17.30, and the young man, at the time of being arrested a few minutes later by the police, would have told them:…
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