The judicial landscape in Colombia is shaken after the announcement of the Attorney General’s Office, which has decided to call to formally respond to Augusto Rodríguez, current director of the National Protection Unit (UNP), who must face charges on February 11 for his alleged omissive responsibility in the assassination of presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, which occurred after a hitman attack last year.

The determination of the accusing body marks a milestone in the recent history of the country, as Rodríguez is the first senior official of the current Government to be criminally prosecuted for the failures in the security scheme that led to the crime.

According to the investigation carried out by a prosecutor from the Bogotá Section, the head of the UNP will be charged with the crimes of malfeasance by omission and attempted homicide, under the thesis that multiple alerts and requests to reinforce the protection of the leader of the Democratic Center before he was attacked were ignored.

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The file indicates that the assassination was not an isolated event, but the result of what justice describes as state “meanness.”

The lawyer for the victim’s family, Víctor Mosquera, has vehemently maintained that on more than ten occasions additional protection was requested for the 39-year-old politician, requests that would have been ignored by the entity in charge of ensuring the lives of public figures at risk.

Miguel Uribe Turbay was the victim of a gun attack on June 7 while participating in a public event in El Golfito park, in the north of the capital.

A 15-year-old teenager was responsible for firing a Glock pistol against the candidate, who died weeks later at the Santa Fe Foundation. While investigations point to the “Second Marquetalia” as the masterminds, the judicial magnifying glass now focuses on the UNP chain of command and why the security scheme was insufficient to prevent the tragedy.

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