Colombian Army Commander summoned to make a statement for a possible ELN attack on a Prosecutor

The commander of the Colombian army, General Luis Ospina Gutiérrez, was subpoenaed by the prosecutor’s office on 22 this month to give an affidavit within the investigation to indict a possible ELN plan to expel the prosecutor, Francisco Barbosa, from the to rob life. .

The head of the investigative body said in a statement on Monday that “this is an autonomous and independent prosecutor who will have to clarify these facts and, of course, provide clarity to the country on this.”

Last Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office denounced that the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla, which currently has a ceasefire with the government in effect, is training its members “to carry out a sniper attack” against the prosecutor general.

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According to the information, last July, five senior ELN commanders met in Venezuela, where “members of that organized armed group were trained to carry out an attack with snipers, under the coordination of alias ‘el Rolo’, leader of an urban front of the ELN”.

In this regard, the guerrilla stated that the alleged plan to attack Barbosa is not true and that this information is used to seek sabotage of the peace talks.

In his statement today, District Attorney Barbosa, who is in Washington, added that the measures to strengthen his security have been taken by the entity.

“We don’t have any kind of security reinforcement by the National Army nor by the government because the Public Prosecution Service can. The difficulty I have is when my term ends, which is why the debate is important to show the country what happened to these issues,” Barbosa said.

He explained that his visit to the United States is related to meetings with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Secretary General of the OAS, to review the progress and results of the prosecution in this case. to show, the entity’s role against the total peace project and its articulated work with the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP).