A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention for taking pictures Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay at a rally in Bogotá in June.
The conservative senator, who was 39, underwent a number of surgical procedures after being hit by three bullets however died on 11 August.
{The teenager} was charged with tried homicide and the unlawful possession on firearms.
After years of rising peace, the taking pictures shocked Colombians, who nonetheless remembered the political violence of the Eighties and 90s when a number of presidential candidates and influential Colombian figures have been assassinated.
Uribe was shot within the head at a marketing campaign rally on 7 June, with unverified video of the assassination broadly circulated on-line.
Native media stories counsel that after he was arrested, he cried out: “I did it for cash for my household.”
The senator was a well-liked member of the right-wing Democratic Centre get together, and had been looking for his get together’s nomination for the 2026 presidential election.
His father, Miguel Uribe Londoño, introduced his personal presidential marketing campaign earlier this week, in what he mentioned was an effort maintain his son’s legacy alive.
Uribe Londoño was a member of Bogotá’s metropolis council within the late 80s and a senator for Colombia’s Conservative Occasion within the early 90s.
Throughout that point interval, a number of presidential candidates and influential Colombian figures have been assassinated, including Uribe’s own mother, journalist Diana Turbay.
She was kidnapped by Los Extraditables in 1990 – an alliance created by main drug lords. She was held hostage by them for 5 months earlier than being shot lifeless throughout a botched rescue try.
Uribe usually cited her as his inspiration to run for political workplace “to work for our nation”.
