Uribe withdraws from slander lawsuit against Petro



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The senator Gustavo Petro made known that Alvaro Uribe Velez he desisted from continuing with the criminal action for slander against him.

Said legal action was filed by the former president Uribe in 2019 for various publications that Petro made on Twitter.

Uribe’s lawsuit against Petro for libel was filed in February of last year and advanced in the preliminary stage in the Supreme Court of Justice.

But this Monday, October 5, the Supreme Court of Justice notified the senator of Human Colombia of the withdrawal of the process by Uribe Vélez.

Legal decision that Gustavo Petro shared on the social network Twitter with his followers:

Álvaro Uribe Vélez, desists from his criminal action against me”.

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According to the then senator of the Democratic Center, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the political leader of the Colombia Humana, Gustavo Petro, tried to discredit him in Twitter.

So he decided to initiate legal proceedings against his peer before the high court to determine whether he had incurred the crime of slander.

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