Colombia’s police on Saturday said they had arrested a suspected FARC rebel convicted of taking part in the 2003 kidnapping of three American military contractors. The defense workers weren’t released until 2008.
“Giovanny” is charged with
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“Giovanny,” the nom-de-guerre of Duverney, is one of the guerrillas closest to “El Paisa, the feared commander of the Teofilo Foreo elite unit of the FARC, said the police in a press release on Saturday.
The rebel is convicted for a number of war crimes , including the kidnapping of the three US military contractors whose plane had crashed in the jungle in FARC-controlled area.
The arrested suspect was captured in the city of Florencia, the capital of the southern Caqueta state.
Location of the arrest
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Due to his long list of convictions and indictments, authorities said the 32-year-old suspect was one of the most bloody guerrillas in the FARC, an organization suspected of having carried out thousands of human rights violations in its 50-year existence.
“Giovanny” had a lotal of 19 arrest warrants against him, said the National Police commander, General Rodolfo Palomino, on Twitter.
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Sources
- Capturan a alias “Giovanny”, hombre de confianza del máximo cabecilla de la Teófilo Forero de las Farc alias “el paisa” (Radio Santa Fe)
- Golpe a la Teófilo Forero de las Farc (National Police)
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