“His release is targeted because he is a family member of the great athlete that all Colombians love,” they said in a statement.
He Northern War Front of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla. announced last sSaturday, November 4 that the release process of Luis Manuel Díaz, father of Liverpool’s Colombian striker, had begun Luis Diaz. The Reds player’s father was mMore than a week of captivity when they took him to Barrancas, La Guajira.
According to the statement of that faction of the armed group: At the time of the kidnapping, they did not know that they were taking Luis Díaz’s father and mother. and they confessed it was a kidnapping economic purposes (extortion).
“The Northern War Front has commandos with economic missions and one of them carried out the deprivation of liberty that, when reported and verified, was the father of Lucho Díaz, His release is targeted because he is a family member of the great athlete that all Colombians love,” the guerrillas said in a statement on social networks.
According to the Front, the guerrilla structure is “in solidarity with families experiencing pain and tragedy.”
Dated November 2 and signed by the commander of the Northern War Front, Jose Manuel Martínez Quiroz, they claim that they stand in solidarity with the families who experience pain and tragedies, which is why they remain steadfast in the peace process. “Determined in the search for paths to peace, with the necessary transformations the country needs,” they insisted.
After the release process was confirmed last weekend, Luis Manuel Díaz was released, as confirmed by several media and journalists in Colombia.
Source: Goal