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Sources from the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed to EL TIEMPO that former senator Piedad Córdoba will be summoned, on dates to be defined, in the case of the assassination of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, of which she claimed to have information and evidence regarding who ordered to assassinate him.
The case of Gómez Hurtado, murdered on November 2, 1995, was assigned to a special human rights team. Further, Upon taking possession of Attorney General Francisco Barbosa, President Iván Duque specifically asked him to clarify the assassination, declared a crime against humanity in 2017.
(Also read: Gómez Hurtado’s family will ask the Prosecutor’s Office to summon Piedad Córdoba)
Córdoba will be cited as a witness. Due to the fact that the process goes through the system prior to the accusatory criminal, the Prosecutor’s Office is defining whether the citation of a free or sworn version.
This Thursday, after her bodyguards suffered an attack that is being investigated as a robbery, former Senator Piedad Córdoba disproved that hypothesis and pointed out that she and close people have suffered several alleged robbery attempts.
(Also: Piedad Córdoba does not believe it was a robbery)
Córdoba also said that he knew who ordered to kill Gómez Hurtado, and assured that he will present the evidence to the Truth Commission, where the case has been aired again, in part, based on the version of former president Ernesto Samper.
For the Gómez Hurtado family, Córdoba wants to distort the hypothesis that the crime was planned from the power of the State when Samper was president. For this reason, they themselves asked the Prosecutor’s Office to cite the liberal politics of the left.
(Of interest: Samper’s version of the DEA and attempted kidnapping of his lawyer)
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