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The first thing that former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez mentioned before the magistrates was that his father, Alberto Uribe Sierra, “The FARC (sic) assassinated him on June 14, 1983”, and then went into details, according to statements published by Semana.
“He was murdered at the Hacienda Guacharacas. In that (his voice is cut off) against my father, my brother Santiago came to my father’s defense and they pierced his lung with a rifle bullet. He survived miraculously because they managed to take him to the Yolombó town and a doctor, who died recently, saved him because he prevented the bleeding. My father was a charitable man and humanity loved him, and a teacher he had on the farm saved my sister from a kidnapping, ”he said.
After that, the former senator said that there were about “12 or 14 individuals” from that guerrilla who carried long weapons, and that when they arrived at the farm his brother and Captain Bernardo Rivera asked his father not to confront them.
“My father surely got desperate because my younger brothers were there, and he said he didn’t pay a peso or walk a step. He barricaded himself in a kitchen with a gun he had and began to shoot those men, and they killed him quickly, ”Álvaro Uribe Vélez explained.
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Magistrate César Reyes asked him, regarding the issue, if “they knew which front of the Farc” was committing crimes in that area and who were responsible.
“My brother told everything and how they identified themselves, I don’t have an exact memory of the front, I took little care of it. But the truth is that they tried to distort the issues and assign drug trafficking issues to my dad. My father used to say that the only sins he had were drinking brandy and being in love, “replied the former senator.
Finally, Uribe assured the Court that there were several witnesses who agree that the murderers were from a FARC front.
In addition to this episode, still painful for him, the former president also spoke about the witnesses against him, his relationship with the lawyer Diego Cadena and the day he was notified that he could go to prison for the case of alleged manipulation of witnesses, the The same that today has him under house arrest on his farm.
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