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The Monegasque building, symbol of power and ostentation of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, and located in one of the affluent neighborhoods of Medellín, will be demolished this Friday, twenty-five years later, the death of the capo, to close a painful chapter of this Colombian city.
Dozens of experts have been working for several days to prepare for the implosion of the eight-storey building it was the residence of Escobar and his family and that since his death, November 2, 1993, attracts tourists in the "narcotours".
Facade of the Monegasque building that will be demolished this Friday, twenty-five years after the death of the capo, to close a painful chapter of this Colombian city (EFE).
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In the square occupied by the building, in the area of El Poblado, a park will be built in memory of the victims of drug trafficking with which Escobar tried to subject the society and the Colombian state in the 80s and 90s of the last century.
"It was the home of Escobar and his family, and we will dismantle this building to build the first memorial to Medellin in the honor of the victims," said Manuel Villa, private secretary of the office. Mayor of Medellín.
Facade of the Monegasque building, symbol of the power and ostentation of the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar (EFE).
The head of the demolition project in Monaco said the goal was to start telling the story of the "right side" of the fall of the "symbol of the aggressors and the illegality".
This building, now in ruins, It was the residence of the chief of the drug cartel in Medellin and target of a car bomb attack in 1988 from the rivals of the Cali cartel, in one of the bloodiest episodes of the city.
Monaco Building where Pablo Escobar was attacked (Marcelo Carroll).
Escobar chose the district of Santa María de los Ángeles, which is part of Poblado, as placeBuild in 1986 the Monaco, named in the honor of the principalityand the residence of several of his relatives and his bodyguards.
In addition to the 12 apartments, two swimming pools, 34 parking spaces and a football field, the capoduc ordered the construction of a two-level penthouse on this 5,000-square-meter property where he lived with his wife and two children.
The abandoned Manuela Ranch villa by Pablo Escobar in Medellín (Bloomberg).
The war between the cartels of Medellín and Cali left its mark on this building the terrorist attack of January 13, 1988, which left three dead and ten wounded and left in the open air, among the ruins of the property, a collection of dozens of Escobar sports cars.
After the attack, the corporal left his bunker, which was later the headquarters of the Christian Association of Assistance and Rehabilitation (Asocar) and the National Narcotics Directorate, an entity that administers goods confiscated from drug traffickers.
The house where they surprised and killed Pablo Escobar in Barrio La América is now abandoned (Marcelo Carroll).
It also became the administrative and financial headquarters of the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, which in 2000 had suffered the explosion of another bomb, on this occasion, directed against members of the CTI (Technical Research Corps) of this entity.
In 2008, the Monaco was the subject of expropriation proceedings and was handed over to the Colombian police., for ten years later, pbaded into the hands of the Mayor's Office of Medellin as part of an agreement with the Society of Special Property (SAE), which finally allowed to start the demolition.
Pablo Escobar died on the roof of the house.
The implosion scheduled for Friday, which will reduce it to rubble in just three seconds, is part of the initiative "Medellín embraces its history", led by local authorities to pay tribute to the victims of drug trafficking in the city.
As the Mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, explained, the reconstruction of this "ruined" building would require an investment of about 40,000 million pesos (about 12.8 million dollars), ie: "Ten times more" than the cost of demolishing and building the park.
Pablo Escobar Gaviria at the morgue of Medellín (Sygma).
"It is not enough to erase the story, but to come back to tell the good side, the side of the victims," said Gutiérrez about the demolition of Monaco . Fort Escobar who will stop attracting tourism that the mayor and the city openly reject.
In the call for demolition, the Mayor remembers that in 1991, Medellín was "the most violent city in the world", with 381 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, and that his people lived "in the midst of pain and fear, but it is precisely this past that makes our present so precious."
"Today, Medellín is fascinating because it has resurfaced and changed and today we are an example of innovation and social inclusion and we continue to progress in the processes of urban renewal that allows us to build a city based on trust, "he added.
Luz Maria Escobar Gaviria puts flowers on the grave of her brother, the drug dealer Pablo Escobar, in the Montesacro cemetery, south of Medellín (EFE).
For Lucero Gómez Restrepo, a resident of the area, "it is time to abandon narcotism in an abandoned building, with which many people have the example of Escobar".
In this coincides the organization Corporado, which brings together the inhabitants of El Poblado, noting that it is "very important that the building be demolished" so that "Stop being a referee of drug trafficking " in a city that is an example of innovation and resilience.
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