Carlos Antonio Vélez, on hooded men in the Cathedral: “Entering a monumental obstacle should be punished with jail”

The sports commentator pointed out criminals who participated in the performance at the Primada Cathedral, one of them Simona, who has participated in other controversial demonstrations

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The performance performed by a group of hooded men, belonging to the group called Blue Shields, inside the Primate Cathedral of Bogotá, in the middle of the Eucharist, continues to give something to talk about. Sports analyst Carlos Antonio Vélez joined the wave of rejections from the demonstration held last Sunday, March 21.

On his Twitter account, the director of the program Planeta Fútbol, broadcast on Antena 2, demanded jail for protesters who broke into the religious temple, and, in addition, implied that they were under the influence of psychoactive substances, even if it was nothing more than speculation by him.

Carlos Antonio Vélez criticizes intervention in the primate cathedral

His post has only one comment, since the commenter has the function activated on Twitter so that only those who follow can respond to him. The one who commented on the event was netizen Fanny González Tobón, who said: “And they know who the woman is and the guy in the blue shirt and beige cap at the end of the video and nobody does anything.”

Gonzalez, to a certain extent, is right. The woman whose face is unknown, since she has it covered with a purple collar, is known as Simona, and it is not the first time she has expressed her discontent through social protest. On two occasions he had already garnered the attention of both the media and users on social networks: once, standing at the fountain of the Semana building, which he dyed red for the performance, two weeks after the national strike on 28 April, and another, at the Marly station, on one of the turnstiles, inviting the citizenship to sneak in after the increase in the passage in TransMilenio.

Bogota. August 21, 2020. Protesters hold a sit-in at the Bogotá Historical Memory Center where they repudiate the past acts of violence that have occurred in different regions of the country during the month of August. (Colprensa-Sergio Acero)
Bogota. August 21, 2020. Protesters hold a sit-in at the Bogotá Historical Memory Center where they repudiate the past acts of violence that have occurred in different regions of the country during the month of August. (Colprensa-Sergio Acero)

As for the “type of blue shirt and beige cap at the end of the video”, some assumed that it is progressive senator Gustavo Bolivar, given his relative similarity in physical appearance.

Faced with the rumors, the congressman commented: “I wanted to rest for the weekend to recharge my strength in the face of the first presidential Petro campaign and I couldn't. Antier a madwoman said my sister worked at the Registrar's Office. Today they said I was sabotaging the mass in the Primate Cathedral. Now, faggots! (...) I do have to admit that (the man in the video) is very similar and that gives rise to suspicion, that if I don't go out to deny them, then the story of the Fake News remains.”

Alvaro Uribe Vélez also spoke about the entrance to the Primada Cathedral, pointing to the presidential candidate of the Historical Pact about it. “Desecrating the Cathedral is part of the urban war that Santos threatened, of the vandalism that Petro stimulates today protected in his Vatican language, of the resentful expression of the new Farc de Cepeda; they have crossed all the lines, let us wake up and stand firm,” he wrote.

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