Liverpool soccer participant Luis Díaz was reunited Tuesday along with his father, who was kidnapped in northern Colombia by a unit of a guerrilla group in late October and launched final week.
An image launched by the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) of Colombia’s striker Luis Diaz (L) hugging his father Luis Manuel Diaz (R) throughout their assembly(AFP)
Photographs posted on the Colombian Football Federation’s account on X, previously Twitter, captured the striker and his father, Luis Manuel Díaz Jiménez, hugging one another.
With the message “Welcome home Luchooo,” the federation introduced the arrival of the elder Díaz to Barranquilla, the place the Colombian nationwide crew is ready to play towards Brazil on Thursday.
Armed males on bikes kidnapped Díaz’s mother and father from a gasoline station within the small city of Barrancas on Oct. 28. His mom, Cilenis Marulanda, was rescued inside hours by police who arrange roadblocks across the city of 40,000 folks, which is close to Colombia’s border with Venezuela.
After the kidnapping, particular forces have been deployed to seek for Díaz’s father in a mountain vary that straddles Colombia and Venezuela. Police additionally supplied a $48,000 reward for info that led to him.
It was initially unclear who carried out the kidnapping. Colombia’s authorities subsequently introduced that it had info {that a} unit of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, was accountable. within the kidnapping,
The group later acknowledged the kidnapping, saying it was a mistake and that its high management had ordered the daddy’s launch.
Diaz’s mother and father have been taken amid peace negotiations between Colombia’s authorities and the guerrilla group.
Authorities arrested 4 suspects over the weekend.
Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office estimates that between January 2022 and September 2023, armed teams carried out 160 kidnappings and 121 releases.
After Díaz’s father was launched, the federal government’s peace talks delegation demanded in an announcement that the ELN instantly free anybody it nonetheless “has in captivity” and finish its follow of kidnappings.
“It is unsustainable to argue, from an ethical point of view, that trading with human beings is legal, even under the conditions of an armed conflict,” the assertion stated.
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