Exactly like Escobar, Urabeños put target on Colombia’s cops and their families
Source: Colombia Reports
Exactly like Escobar, Urabeños put target on Colombia’s cops and their families
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Apr 5, 2016
In an attempt to frustrate ongoing efforts to take down the leadership of Colombia’s largest neo-paramilitary group, Los Urabeños, the organization is reportedly offering rewards for the killing of members of the search bloc and their families.
Within just a few weeks, at least nine policemen were assassinated, presumably by members of the Urabeños or low-level criminals seeking to cash the $3000 reward put on the head of any member of the National Police.
However, an anonymous source high up in the National Police told newspaper El Tiempo that the leadership of the drug-trafficking paramilitary successor group is offering more than $6000 for the killing of any member of the search bloc that has been chasing Urabeños chief “Otoniel” since early last year.
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“No criminal organization in the world has ever had such reach. They’re not just planning to attack our guys, but their families, hoping we lower the intensity of operations against then,” the anonymous source told El Tiempo.
Read more: http://colombiareports.com/exactly-like-escobar-urabenos-offer-rewards-cop-killings/
