This Friday will be demolished a historic building by Pablo Escobar

February 22, 2019

The Monaco building will be destroyed and a memorial will be built in place of the victims of drug trafficking in Medellin.

The refuge of Pablo Escobar In the middle of the war with the Medellin cartel and its problems with the Colombian government, it will be destroyed this Friday and a memorial will be set up to pay tribute to the victims of drug trafficking. For those who still do not realize, we are talking about the Monaco building, the structure that the "boss" had used as a bunker in the 80s.

"We can not ignore history, but we can give space to other protagonists in this story. Let people know that we live several times with up to 10 bombs in a month. That during the last three months of 1989, the country suffered 100 bombings"Explained Manuel Villa, private secretary of the Mayor of Medellín.

They badure that the ghost of Pablo Escobar appeared in the building where he lived with his family

Building Monaco It is an eight-storey building built in the mid-1980s, consisting of 8 floors and an approximate 5,000 square meters. Its location is in the neighborhood The city, one of the most exclusive in the city.

The structure, which included billiard rooms, rooms with private Jacuzzi, a basement with a collection of old cars, another collection of works of art and even tunnels ready to escape, was abandoned during 30 years old and they saw the ghost of Escobar enter.

The building was completed in 1986 and received its first impact on January 13, 1988, when Cali's poster blew up an 80 kilo bomb d & # 39; explosives. However, the property withstood the shaking.