The historical crimes and murders that shocked Colombia the most

By a stray bullet, during an alien flight, while he was riding in an Uber, the Colombian urban music singer Legarda pbaded away, while he was beginning to stand out on the regional music scene . The fact caused a commotion throughout Colombia because of the absurd coincidences. But this is not a death whose circumstances are unusual in the course of national history and which highlight the country's most violent episodes of violence.

On February 6, in the exclusive neighborhood of El Poblado in Medellin, two motorcycle criminals attempted to steal, which constitutes a method of armed robbery against a person who has just withdrawn a large sum of money. money from a bank office. But the victim, who works in a security company, had a weapon and fired it against motorized vehicles. And a shooting starts.

Just then, the 29-year-old public service car carrying the reggaeton pbades by. The man who would be the victim fired a shot at one of the offenders, who died instantly; It hurts the other, who manages to escape and who hangs forward is stopped by the police and takes one to the head, to Legarda. The singer arrives with "very serious brain damage" at the clinic where he was transferred.

The next morning, the day he released the single Nutella, the young artist died of cardiac arrest. The news also made headlines in all the country's media because it starred in a celebrity love story with a recognized influence, singer and actress Luisa Fernanda W, who met in the Colombian version of the reality Master Chef Celebrity.

The death of Legarda recalls other eminent personalities – or famous personalities – who have also shocked Colombia throughout its history, because the circumstances of the events, in addition to reflecting the violence of the country, are almost unusual. The murders of a politician with a machete, a presidential candidate who generated unimaginable excesses, a footballer to put a autogol, a young overdose in the mansion of a famous singer and an unresolved university student.

Rafael Uribe Uribe (1914)

Uribe was a military and a statesman who participated in three Colombian civil wars of the late nineteenth century with the ideal goal of establishing socialism and trade unionism in the country. He lost them all, which is why the press called him the "consul of discredit". In the last, The Thousand-Day War, he had to see how conservatism had acquired hegemony. However, he maintained a strong political activism on the part of the opposition leader of the Liberal Party, which did not suit the power.

On February 8, 1914, General Rafael Uribe crossed the Plaza de Bolívar, in the center of Bogotá, towards the National Capitol. He was intercepted by two men who, without saying a word, attacked him with ax without compbadion. When the crowds piled up on the scene of the events, a pbading doctor was alerted by the people. He was treated in his own home a few blocks away, but with multiple bruises all over his body, including a huge head, he died that very morning.

The murder had already been announced by another Colombian soldier from Caracas, Venezuela, where rumors about the threat had reached. The funeral gathered a crowd of people in the Plaza de Bolívar and caused a lot of rejection. Later, they captured the badbadins, the carpenters Leovigildo Galarza and Jesús Carvajal, sentenced to 20 years in prison and the payment of 80,000 pesos of gold. But we never knew who the intellectual writers were. The crime was described in the book Reminiscences of Santafé de Bogotá by José María Córdovez.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1948)

After the defeat of the Liberal Party in the 1946 elections, Gaitán was the favorite to win the Colombian presidency at the time of his death. It was April 9, 1949. He was leaving his law firm in Bogotá when a man shot him at point blank range. The caudillo moved the most repressed mbades of the country who saw in the caudillo the hope of socialist ideas.

Therefore, the announcement of his death changed the course of the country. Supporters of the capital have been on the streets during violent protests known in history as "El Bogotazo". Fire, theft, destruction of public and private property, fighting. In the middle, they lynched the material author of the murder, Juan Roa Sierra. The uprising has left more than three thousand dead, as it has been replicated in several liberal cities.

The aggression sparked an era known as La Violencia, which spawned a civil war between the liberal and conservative parties, at the root of which the guerrillas were born, which then gave rise to the recent known armed conflict in Colombia. The crime of Gaitán has been declared a crime against humanity, has never known brains.

The Colombian team had just given an unforgettable match in which they beat Argentina's favorite team, Diego Armando Maradona, with five goals to zero, at home during the FIFA World Cup qualifiers. 1994. Tricolor painting of Carlos' Pibe & # 39; Valderrama, Faustino & Tino & # 39; Asprilla, Freddy Rincón, Victor Hugo Aristizábal, Iván Rene Valencia, Andrés Escobar and others.

The whole world turned to the national team and the press began to name him among the favorites to win the world cup. But not even the first round, and in one of the games, against the host, Escobar, known as the "Caballero del Football", scored a goal by mistake. The whole country talked about his behavior as the one who took them out of the World Cup. People were hysterical and began to receive threats.

When he returned to Colombia on 2 July 1994, Escobar went to a restaurant in his home country, Medellín, when men began to harbad him, including David and Santiago Gallón Henao, because of their relationship with the paramilitary and the police. drug traffic. To avoid problems, he decided to leave. The men, already inside a pickup truck, followed him through the parking lot and, between two insults, the driver shot him six times.

The murderer was sentenced to 43 years in prison, but much less. He was the driver of a major drug dealer, but his connection to the crime was never proven, although he was on the scene at the time of the murder.

Doris Adriana Niño (1997)

Doris Adriana Niño was not known until her death. She was one of many idol lovers of Colombian folk music known as Vallenato, Diomedes Díaz. On May 15, 1997, the 22-year-old girl met the singer in the north of Bogotá. The next morning, his body was found dead on a road in Boyacá, the neighboring department.

He had signs of violence and Legal Medicine proved that he had died from an overdose of cocaine. The investigation of the authorities determined that the person responsible for his death was Diomedes Díaz, a great agitation in the country between those who accused him and those who supported him, who were more numerous. The singer was sentenced under house arrest. Two years later, he escaped knowing that he would be deprived of the benefit of a prison house.

Before the national scandal, the "Cacique de la Junta" decided to surrender in 2002 and was finally sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 2003, the sentence was reduced to six years. And in 2004, he was released. The security guard of the artist's building testifies against him and other people who were in his house on the day of the fatal feast. But Diomede continued to sing, less and less because of the ravages of alcohol and drug abuse. He died on December 22, 2013 from a cardiorespiratory arrest.

Luis Andrés Colmenares (2010)

On the night of October 31, 2010, the engineering student of the prestigious University of Los Andes went to celebrate Halloween with a group of friends in the exclusive area of ​​Parque de la 93, in Bogotá. The next morning, his body appeared with signs of violence in El Virrey's pipe. The people who accompanied him did not answer and the argument was that he had fallen because of his intoxicated state, but the facts were disconcerting.

The version given by Laura Moreno, a young woman with whom Colmenares was attempting a romantic relationship, did not convince her father, lawyer Luis Colmenares. Due to the prestige of the families in dispute, the case quickly became a media and occupied the first public agenda records for several years. Relatives of the victims presented new evidence showing errors and inconsistencies in the process.

In 2014, one of the comrades accused of homicide for the defense of the victim, Carlos Cárdenas, was acquitted for lack of evidence. And despite the contradictions of the testimonies of two other compañeras, Moreno and Jessy Quintero, they were also released in 2017. The case still has not been resolved and the lawyer Colmenares remains in pursuit of justice . In the meantime, Netflix has decided to create a series on crime because of the controversy surrounding the process, which will be launched this year.