In events that occurred on the morning of Sunday, March 27, armed men who identified themselves as FARC dissidents stopped a public service bus on the Angostura-Yarumal highway, forced passengers to abandon the vehicle and then set fire to it on the road.
Although no casualties were reported, authorities reported interference in the area of the Residual 36, which they claimed to be responsible for the attack.
For the Secretary of Human Security of Antioquia, Luis Fernando Suárez, the armed group installed explosives on the road to attack the public forces:
“Between Yarumal and Angostura, a bus was burned and, apparently, explosive devices were installed as a decoy so that, upon the arrival of the public forces, an attack would be committed. They are on the ground verifying the situation and we are keeping an eye on the news,” the official reported.
The explosives were detonated in a controlled manner by the authorities; the public service bus covered the Yarumal-Angostura route. After the reported events, operations were carried out to find those responsible for this fact.
According to official reports, operations are carried out by the Antioquia Police Command and the Fourth Brigade of the Army. Likewise, they do not rule out the version that the attack was aimed at the transport company as a way to extort money from it for the profits they report in the area.
Alias “Nicholas”, extradited to the United States
Colombian authorities confirmed the extradition of Carlos Antonio Moreno Tuberquía, alias “Nicolás”, who was the second in command of the criminal structure, called the Gulf Clan.
The criminal was the successor of Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias' Otoniel ', who was captured during 2021 by the country's public forces. Along these lines, on the morning of this Friday, March 25, at the Catam airbase, the transfer of Nicholas began, requested by the courts of New York and Miami, in the United States.
The crimes for which Nicholas was extradited have to do with the crimes of concert to commit an aggravated crime and trafficking, manufacturing or carrying narcotics. For this reason, the United States Government, through verbal votes, requested “provisional detention for the purpose of extradition” of alias 'Nicolás.
In fact, this decision has been legalized since 2018. “With his extradition, we ratified our cooperation with allied countries in the fight against this scourge, which has claimed thousands of lives in Colombia and the world,” President Iván Duque said at the time through his Twitter account.
It should be noted that, in addition to the decision of the Colombian State, on February 23 of this year, the resignation of the second in command of the Gulf Clan before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) was announced. There, Moreno Tuberquia told the magistrates that his intention in submitting to the Peace Court has never been to use it to protect himself from extradition, so he withdrew the request.
“I express my intention to waive the constitutional guarantee of non-extradition, in the event that jurisdiction is accepted by the jurisdiction, it is not in my interest to avoid the extradition request that is against me with respect to the procedure that takes place in this jurisdiction” the article reads.
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