Conservative Senator Miguel Uribe, who has stated that he intends to claim her presidency Colombian In the 2026 elections, he was injured in the head in an attack against him in Bogota, with his wife declaring that he was fighting for his life.
Video posted on social media shows the 39 -year -old politician speaking at a campaign event in a park in Fontibon in Bogota, Colombia’s capital, when shots are heard.
According to a statement by his party, the Democratic Center, “gunmen shot him from behind”.
Other images show Uribe lying on the bonnet of a car, bloodthirsty.
The Democratic Center described this attack as serious, but did not disclose information about Uribe’s health. His wife Maria Claudia Tarasonas wrote in Uribe’s account in X that he “fights for his life”.
As stated by the wounded carriers who received the senator, he has accept two bullets on the head and one on the knee.
According to police, two people were injured by the attack.
#Ultimahora| Precandidato to the presidency of Colombia Miguel Uribe is attacked with shots during a speech that gave in the city of Bogotá. pic.twitter.com/4RP3f5LQx2
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The same source added that the alleged as a perpetrator of the attack, which took place around 17:30 (local time, 01:30 in the early morning of Greece), is underage. He has also been injured in the calf by a bullet thrown by Uribe’s bodyguards and has been arrested.
For his part, Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez said authorities are investigating whether others were involved in the attack, adding that the government It offers about $ 730,000 to anyone who has information about the case.
The Colombian Presidency issued a statement stressing that the government rejects the violent attack “categorically and emphatically”, while calling for a thorough investigation into the incident.
“This act of violence is an attack not only against the physical integrity of the senator, but against democracy, freedom of thought and the legal pursuit of policy in Colombia,” the presidency said in its announcement.
“Respect life, this is the red line. Colombia should not kill her children, “Social Democratic President Gustavos Petro wrote in his X account.” I don’t know how to get rid of your pain. It is the pain of the lost mother and the (lost) homeland, “he said to the Uribe family.
In a speech on Saturday night, the Colombian president confirmed that the person arrested for the attack on Uribe was a minor and added that investigations would focus on identifying those who organized and ordered the attack.
‘At the moment there are only speculations’Petros noted, adding that any gaps in security measures would be considered.
International convictions
For his part, the US Secretary of State Mark Rubio He noted in a statement that the United States “condemns in the most intense way of attempted murder” by Uribe, while rejecting Peter’s “incendiary rhetoric”.
The UN office in Colombia condemned the attack. “We are convinced that the authorities will shed light on the facts and punish the perpetrators,” he commented on X.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa as well as the leader of the opposition in Venezuelan Maria Korina Matsado expressed their support for the senator’s family through X.
Miguel Uribe, who is not officially a candidate for his party for the May 2026 presidential election, comes from a large political family of Colombia.
He is a grandson of Julio Cesar Tourbai, President of Colombia from 1978 to 1982, and son of Diana Tourbai, a journalist who had been abducted by Baroness Pablo Escobar and was killed in 1991 during her military operation.
Miguel Uribe has been a senator since 2022, previously served as secretary of the Municipality of Bogota, and in 2019 he had tried to be successfully elected mayor of the Colombian capital.