The presidential senator and candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was the victim of an armed attack during a public political event in the afternoon of today. The fact reopens a critical debate about violence, the use of minors for organized crime and the future of elections in Colombia.
What happened?
Today, Saturday, June 7, 2025at 5:00 pm, the senator and Presidential candidate by him Democratic Center, Miguel Uribe Turbay, He was the victim of a attempt while participating in a Campaign event at El Golfito Park, in the Modelia neighborhood of the town of Fontibón, west of Bogotá. A subject approached the back and He shot him at least six occasions. One of the projectiles lodged in his head. Uribe was transferred in Critical status to the Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá.
So far, it is known that Two other people would also have been injured after the shooting. His current status has not been reported by the authorities.
The material author: a minor in the line of fire
The attack was perpetrated by a teenager who arrived at the place as a barbecue on a motorcycle, got off, took a firearm and shot. The safety scheme reaction was immediate: The escorts reacted immediately: they shot him, hurting him in one leg, and a persecution began through the streets of the neighborhood that ended with the capture of the alleged hitman While remained injured on the ground. The scene was recorded on video by a security camera in the sector. He was transferred in custody to the Colombia Clinic.
This fact revives an urgent problem: The use of minors as organized crime instruments. A chilling reality that has been happening for years. Criminal structures recruit vulnerable young people, promise them material benefits, security for their families and even legal support if they are detained. Meanwhile, they become cannon meat of a perverse machinery that remains in the shadows.
And although you must investigate what pressures or contexts surrounded this young man, This does not eliminate your responsibility. The damage is already done. There is a shattered family and a country on alert. Young or not, you must face the consequences of your actions. It is essential that the corresponding sanctions be applied, so that he understands the magnitude of what he did and does not become a major criminal over the years. Only the chain is cut.
What did the captured say?
At the time he proceeded with the proper apprehension of the alleged aggressor, The uniformed questioned the young man, asking him who had commanded him, and he replied: «Let me give him the numbers,» referring, apparently, to whom he allegedly delivered the order to kill Turbay.
Turbay’s first part
The first official part of Miguel Uribe’s health status was issued by the Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá, Medical center that was sent at night. According to the statement signed by Adolfo Llinás Volpe, medical director of the clinic, the senator entered at 8:30 pm «in critical state», and all high complexity care protocols were immediately activated. Currently, the team of neurosurgeons and specialists in peripheral vascular Urgent surgical procedure.
The process is being led by Fernando Hakim, Recognized neurosurgeon with more than 30 years of experience and head of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Santa Fe Foundation. Before being transferred, Uribe Turbay was treated at the Medicentro Clinic, where A nursing assistant revealed that he arrived unconscious, in a critical condition and that they lasted about 45 minutes in resuscitation maneuvers. According to some versions, the senator I would have received two impacts on the skull.
And the woman behind the alleged hitman?
The most recent shared recordings could change the course of this research. In one of the videos prior to the attack, a woman is observed who, according to witnesses, would have been giving indications to the child who shot at Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay.
Although its identity or its possible direct participation has not yet been confirmedthe presence of this mysterious figure opens new questions. The truth is that, if its linkage was proven, the investigation would take a critical turn and expose more clearly that the attack was not an isolated fact, but an orchestrated execution with precision.
A mafia that manipulates, corrupts and camouflages
It is not an isolated case. Organized crime knows that a minor, due to their legal status, can receive reduced penalties. He knows that public opinion usually focuses on who acts the weapon, but it is rarely investigated who put it in his hands. It is a criminal chess where the adolescent is the sacrificed pawn, while the true puppeteers are still free.
An electoral campaign on the tightrope
The questions that many fear doing are already in the air: Is this attack on the beginning of an electoral campaign marked by violence? Are we facing a repetition of the darkest years of the country, where to think different or aspire to a position involved playing life? Hopefully this attack is not the prelude to what is coming.
Today the country is obliged to demand not only justice, but guarantees so that all political leaders can campaign without fear. Violence cannot be the price of democracy.
Official Communication of the Democratic Center
Reward and institutional response
He Defense Minister announced one reward of up to $ 3 billion by Information that allows materials and intellectual responsible for. The colonel Juan Carlos Triana, police commander in the town, He said that the entire investigative system has been activated together with the Prosecutor’s Office and the CTI.
The weapon was seized and the captured remains in custody while the corresponding judicial acts are developed.
The question we cannot ignore
The great reflection is this: What kind of country are we building when the youngest are recruited as murderers? How much more should the criminal gear that continues to use poverty and lack of opportunities as fuel for expansion really disjointed?
Today, Colombia has a debt with Miguel Uribe Turbay, with his family, with his supporters and with democracy itself. It is not enough to capture a teenager. The country demands that the fund be reached. That is discovered who gave the order. Do not repeat yourself. Do not forget.
Your family’s messages
From this medium we sympathize with the difficult situation that all his family circle, of friends and all who are part of his life are going through. That Colombia receives good news, but above all, that justice arrives.
