This Friday, the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) issued a red notice against six leaders of the Second Marquetalia, the FARC dissident led by alias Iván Márquez, for their alleged responsibility in the assassination of Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay.
The director of the Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dijín), Colonel Elver Vicente Alfonso Sanabria, confirmed that the notifications have already been issued, so those identified will be searched in 196 member countries of the organization, including Venezuela, where several of those sought are presumed to take refuge.
“It has already been authorized, it has already been issued (…) the red notice against each of these ringleaders,” the officer told journalists, highlighting that the measure activates international cooperation mechanisms for their location and capture.
According to the authorities, those sought are considered alleged masterminds of the shooting attack against Uribe Turbay, perpetrated last year in Bogotá.
Among those wanted with the red circular are aliases Iván Márquez, Jhon 40 and Zarco Aldinever, top leaders of that illegal armed group.
Colonel Sanabria added that the priority of the Colombian State is to “achieve the prosecution and capture of the last person responsible” for the crime, and stressed that the authorities maintain rewards for those who provide information that allows the arrest warrants to be effective.
The Interpol red circular is the police cooperation mechanism closest to an international arrest warrant and allows member countries to be alerted about people wanted for serious crimes.
Senator Uribe Turbay, 39, and member of the right-wing opposition Democratic Center party, was wounded with two shots to the head during a rally on June 7 in the Bogotá neighborhood of Modelia and died on August 11, after more than two months admitted to a clinic.
Nine people have been captured for this murder and four of them have already been convicted, including the teenager who shot him.
The assassination is considered one of the most serious episodes of political violence in Colombia in recent decades and the authorities attribute the intellectual authorship of the crime to the Second Marquetalia, a dissident of the former FARC that took up arms after the 2016 peace agreement.
