The secret of the ruins of the Monegasque building that belonged to Pablo Escobar

On February 22, the famous building of Monaco, one of the "narcotours", was demolished in Medellin, it is the last residence of the family of the capo Pablo Escobar, who ordered its construction in the years 1980. s. The news now bears on his remains, which the mayor of the city is taking to a secret location.

These days, a group of workers are picking up with heavy machinery the rubble left by Monaco's implosion, from 7 am to 5 pm, reports the newspaper. The weather. According to the neighbors, curious people from around the world still come to see the facade of the building and photograph what was left of the white structure of eight floors.

A total of 23,000 cubic meters of earth and metals were collected in the remains of Monaco, according to the Medellin Urban Development Company (EDU). These will be held in an unknown place under a confidentiality clause, warn the national media. This, to avoid being stolen by opportunists or by people wishing to have a memory of the capo.

For its part, Blu Radio He claimed that the remains would be taken to various slag heaps in the metropolitan area of ​​Medellín, in a month and a half of work, a period during which the place should be completely clean.

"It is a question of dismantling a mental and antisymbolistic infrastructure in order to honor the values ​​and ethics of those who were heroes and victims, and that is what will be built here. down, "said Manuel Villa Villa's Radio Blu, private secretary of the mayor's office in Medellín. .

The Monaco building was located in the Santa María de los Ángeles neighborhood, in the exclusive El Poblado area. There were reinforced columns, security doors, a Jacuzzi for each room, billiard rooms, a collection of old cars and works of art, and even tunnels laid out for a possible escape.

On January 13, 1988, a car bomb containing 80 kilograms of explosives was set up and fired by the Cali cartel at its entrance, during an attack on Pablo Escobar that left 3 dead and 10 wounded. The capodist's family survived, but the fact was the trigger for an urban war between posters that generated the worst waves of violence in Colombia.

Now, in the square will be built a park of three moments that will be delivered in November this year. Some will show how the city was before the era of violence under Escobar, a second will be a wall in the center of the square to remind the 46,200 victims of drug trafficking and the last a kind of urban forest.