‘El Capi’ speaks, ex-soldier accused of attacks in Cúcuta against Duque and Brigade 30: “I was afraid and I was afraid to blow up the car”

More than two months after its explosion the car bomb of the 30th army brigade in Cúcuta, the northwestern capital of Santander, details of the attacks that shocked Colombia in 2021 and this would be linked to the one who suffered, in Sardinata, Iván Duque, the president of the country, as well as some of his ministers.

According to the authorities, retired captain Andrés Fernando Medina, alias ‘El Capi’, He was the mastermind of the operation and in the last hours the ex-serviceman’s statements came to light during his interrogation.

The cap appeared before steps of the attorney general’s office and made a statement, where he was asked the reasons that led him to plan the attack. The interrogation was published by Semana magazine this Saturday, there is assures Madinah wanted to repent but due to suspected threats, he decided to continue with the macabre plan.

“I was about to regret it, but my family was under threat, I couldn’t go back,” said the retired captain.

According to the publication, El Capi was questioned at the Los Mártires police station in Bogotá and received questions from the prosecutor in charge, who berated him for leaving the army and eventually committing a crime at the home of one of the FARC dissidents.

During his time in the military forces, Medina worked as a helicopter pilot in Teorama, also in Norte de Santander, where he committed the crime. After an attack he suffered, he was compensated and moved on with his life.

Thanks to the recognition he acquired on the military base where the event took place, he was able to enter Brigade 30 without arousing suspicion and, as we knew a few weeks ago, the man recorded several videos in which recounted his terrorist plan.

During the interrogation to which the former captain was subjected, the testimony of El Capi’s father was read, who was identified as Joaquín Medina Duarte, 56, and who was allegedly convinced by his son to acquire the truck with which he committed the crime. to attempt: “I told him they were looking for a white Fortuner truck, that if he could get it to earn us a commission,” mentions the document known to the Bogota magazine.

However, they did not get the truck in the lands of northern Santanderean, then a cousin of El Capi came to Bogotá and there he bought the car for 120 million and at the beginning of June he returned to the department to deliver the order.

The man also said his henchmen told him to enter the brigade safely because “Everything was arranged, he entered without any problem. This would confirm that other members of the armed forces assisted El Capi in his plan.

Finally, on June 15, he took the car to the military base, he assured that he had “Afraid and afraid of blowing up the car”, referring to the explosives that caused the attack, but he still committed the crime, then he got on a motorcycle waiting for him and went to meet Jhon Mechas, who was said to have been the one who ordered the attack on the US military there.

It should be recalled that, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Dijín, during the attack 44 people were injured. In addition, argues the Police, El Capi is the henchman aka Jhon Mechas, leader of the 33rd FARC dissident front and alias Ciro, logistics leader of the same group.

The Bogota magazine also states that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) He also questioned El Capi and informed him that he and the others captured during the event could be extradited to the United States.

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