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Colombia arrests retired military commander for army base 'attack'
by Adriaan Alsema July 23, 2021
Colombia’s chief prosecutor said Thursday that a retired army captain was behind an alleged car bomb attack on a military base in the northeast of the country in June.
In a confusing press statement, Prosecutor General Francisco Barbosa said that the alleged car bomb attack on the 30th Brigade in Cucuta was carried out by the 33rd front of the now-demobilized FARC.
FARC dissidents turn our to be retired army captain
Barbosa didn’t blame rearmed guerrillas of the explosion that injured more than 30 people, however, but Andres Fernando Medina, a retired captain of the National Army.
The former military official allegedly planned and carried out the attack with the help of his father and an employee of the National Protection Unit (UNP), said the prosecutor general.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-arrests-retired-military-commander-for-army-base-attack/
(Colombians should have recalled that a bomb which exploded when former President Alvaro Uribe was being inaugurated was also done by Colombian officers. You'd think they would have checked that one again, remembering history.)
