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The request was made by the Minister of Justice, Enrique Gil, to the National Penitentiary and Penitentiary Institute (Inpec), with the aim of preserving the life of Juan Guillermo Monsalve, who was the victim of Attacks in prison, reported the DPA.
"Clearly, the government must protect all Colombian citizens and in the penitentiary system, the director of Inpec deploys all the security mechanisms inside the prisons," said Gil in statements from the RCN radio. 19659002] Monsalve has been detained at La Picota prison in Bogotá since 2012, after being transferred from a maximum security prison in the municipality of Cómbita, in the central department of Boyacá.
His transfer to the capital was ordered because two inmates attacked him with a knife in Cómbita prison in 2012. A year after this attack, Monsalve was the victim of an attempt at poisoning
Monsalve is a key symbol in an investigation opened last February by the Supreme Court against Uribe for the alleged pressure on witnesses in a court case. The Supreme Court decided to call Uribe to declare, the former president has therefore announced that he would resign from his seat in the Senate.
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Uribe, who ruled from 2002 to 2010 and since 2014 is a senator, said that he felt "Morally impeded" to assume his defense while he is a member of Congress, although political opponents consider it to be a maneuver – which investigates members of Congress – at the prosecutor's office general, a case where his defense would be more favorable.
One of the first to use this argument to criticize the decision of Uribe was the left-wing senator Iván Cepeda, closely linked to the investigation against the 39 former head of state.
Cepeda said that transferring the process to the prosecutor would leave the case in a vulnerable state because the Supreme Court is the one who knows the case perfectly.
The case dates back to 2012, when Cepeda accused the former president and a brother of it, the breeder Santiago Uribe, from having links with right-wing paramilitary groups since the 1980s.
The former president then sued Cepeda with the argument that Cepeda was looking for paramilitary prisoners to raise false testimony against him.
] The Supreme Court closed this investigation last February with a surprising reversal, concluding that Cepeda did not impose any witnesses and that, on the contrary, Uribe could have done so by emissaries so that paramilitary detainees could declare against the leader of the left.
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