Santrich is taken to a medical center in Colombia | NTN24

Jesus Santrich, leader of the ex-Colombian guerrilla group expected to be extradited by the United States for extradition for drug charges, was hospitalized Saturday after being self-mutilated in prison and is "stable ", according to the medical center.

The veteran himself inflicted wounds on the arm while awaiting his release on Friday, on the order of a court of peace, AFP reported.

Upon his departure, Santrich was taken back by prosecutors and then transferred to a hospital in the Colombian capital "for alteration of his state of health," said the mayor of the Méderi University Hospital in a statement released on Saturday. .

Seuxis Paucias Hernández – his legal name – "is clinically stable," adds the text.

The release was resolved on Wednesday by the Special Court for Peace (JEP), the tribunal charged with investigating the worst crimes committed during more than half a century of conflagration with former FARC guerrillas.

Earlier Saturday, the state's medical examiner discovered that in addition to the "saturated wounds" in the arms, the patient had an "altered state of consciousness and positive neurological signs".

The exnegociador of the agreements that allowed the disarmament and transformation of the FARC into political parties was again captured as part of an investigation into drug trafficking conducted in the United States.

Washington, through its embbady in Bogotá, had strongly opposed the release of Santrich and demanded "the urgent appeal" of the decision that liberated him.

President Ivan Duque said he was "scandalized" by the decision of the peace court and supported the appeal of the sentence announced by the Attorney General 's Office, warning that the case does not go unnoticed. was not "close" and that he was willing to authorize the extradition of Santrich.

Aged 52 and suffering from a blatant visual deficit, the former guerrilla leader had been arrested in April 2018 for the purpose of extradition, suspected, according to the prosecution, of 39, conspiring to send cocaine to the United States after the signing of the agreement. the peace

Santrich has always proclaimed his innocence and badured that the drug trafficking charges respond to a conspiracy by Washington and the Colombian prosecutor's office.

Supported by the UN, the deal that led to the disarmament of some 7,000 combatants provides criminal benefits to atrocious criminal perpetrators who contribute to the truth, justice and reparation of the victims. victims.

However, this invalidates the shield against extradition for those who have relapsed after the entry into force of the peace commitments.

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