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Man who made death threats against Gustavo Petro is summoned for questioning

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December 11 |

The Colombian Attorney General’s Office reported on Sunday that it identified a man who made death threats to President Gustavo Petro and his family members, a fact denounced the day before by the head of state.

In a statement released through the social network X, the Public Prosecutor’s Office detailed that it identified in the city of Cali, department of Valle del Cauca (west), the individual who threatened Petro’s life through a video he posted on social networks.

The text of the Prosecutor’s Office informed that its Group of Threats of the Specialized Directorate against Human Rights Violations summoned that person for interrogation.

This proceeding will take place on December 13 “in order to advance in the clarification of these facts and to carry out the respective prosecution”.

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He added that from the moment Petro’s complaint became known, the Prosecutor’s Office “had a specialized group formed by a prosecutor and investigators of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) who were able to clarify what happened”.

The individual identified himself as a member of Los Espartanos, an armed gang that terrorized the inhabitants of the city of Buenaventura (in the Colombian Pacific).

In addition to threatening to kill the president, he said he had contacted 70,000 men to carry out a coup d’état. He also threatened the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP).

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“We must act. We must pressure. We must push Russia towards real peace, which is only achievable through strength,” he added.

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