Prosecutor’s Office: Body of alias ‘Uriel’ transferred to Legal Medicine in Cali

Although President Iván Duque confirmed the identity of the dejected guerrilla leader, a crucial step remains to be taken that will allow the Attorney General’s Office to carry out investigations related to the actions of said guerrilla on the urban front.

The body of the dejected leader of the ELN, alias ‘Uriel’ awaits a process of full identification of his identity in Cali. Killed on the morning of October 25 in an air and ground assault operation in an assault operation coordinated by a group of Special Forces of the Military Forces command (for its acronym, Ccoes), in the Barrancocito village of the Nóvita municipality (Chocó) alias ‘Uriel’, or Andrés Felipe Vanegas Londoño, was a commander of the ELN rHe was recognized for an insistent media activity in which he tried to convey the message of a cohesive guerrilla about denouncing the Colombian government while it carried out guerrilla operations against the Clan del Golfo for total control of the Department of Chocó.

According to statements by the Attorney General of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa Delgado, after the photographic identity check carried out at the site where he was discharged, Full identification will take place in Cali, where a regional Dijin crime laboratory is set up, designed for this purpose..

For the Prosecutor, this work is of vital importance as it will allow “...collect material evidence, which will be added to the investigations that are being followed for actions against this person, for his alleged participation in acts of terrorism and vandalism during the protests recently developed in Bogotá and in other cities of the country”, According to a statement from the entity.

For the Prosecutor’s Office, a new front of investigation with the ELN is the vandalism that the so-called “urban militias” have endured in the cities with weapons and training. In an intervention on October 8, 2020, the senior official stated that “It is not only through frontal armed harassment, in remote rural areas of the country, but through a doctrine of urban warfare, founded on the recruitment of our youth, the strategic division of tasks and the organized instigation of violence, which is currently attacking , Colombian democracy”, Work in which alias ‘Uriel’ stood out, who started as a militiaman, in 2000, in the Martha Elena Barón urban network, and due to his career, which included a transition as a guerrilla in the Cacique Calarcá Front, he reached the rank of ideologue of the Western War Front, which opposed the dialogues with the government of former President Juan Manuel Santos, in 2017. Of ‘Uriel’ it was stated that he answered the messages on his cell phone and monitored the communications on social networks of the at sign of the insurgent group on Twitter. So much so that for the Prosecutor’s Office he was one of the most wanted criminals in the country, to the latter recognizing his work of infiltration of the protests that took place in various cities of the country last September, in which more than 60 Immediate Attention Centers (CAIS) of the National Police were vandalized by elements trained by said warfare.

According to the investigating body, the actions of ‘Uriel’ were developed because he was responsible for the political arm of the ELN, and was considered the main influencer of the guerrilla doctrine, spread among social networks and related media.

According to the official report, in Cali, apart from DIJIN, the specialized prosecutor of the Organized Crime Directorate of the Attorney General’s Office is waiting to carry out said investigation.

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