Colombian Senator Miguel Uribay’s lawyer, a victim of an attempted murder on Tuesday, reported a complaint against Colombia President Gustavo Petro before the Chamber of Deputies’ accusation committee for “hatred speeches” against the senator and also presidential candidate for the 2026 elections.
“On behalf of Miguel Uribe Turbay’s family, we filed a criminal complaint to the prosecution committee against President Gustavo Petro, all in the context that during these three years he has been giving stigmatizing and hatred speeches against Miguel Uribe Turbay,” Victor Victor Mosquera told the press.
The senator’s defense stated that there are more than 43 publications in the X in which Petro “created a hostile, discriminatory and hatred environment against Miguel Uribe.”
“I am not relating this directly to the attack he suffered, but with him having generated an environment that could have led to this attack,” he added.
Mosquera stated that the president has been “absolutely irresponsible” on his accusations against the opposition and cited as an example a message from June 5, in which Petro, alluding to Uribe Turbay, wrote: “My God, the grandson of a president who ordered the torture of 10,000 Colombians speaking of institutional breakup.”
“This is absolutely serious, generates hatred in the population, polarization, and so we are requesting the commission of accusations that investigate and determine whether the conduct of the President fall into a hatred speech,” said the lawyer.
39-year-old Uribay Turbay is the grandson of former Liberal President Julio César Turbay and his mother, journalist Diana Turbay Quterero, was kidnapped by Pablo Escobar drug traffickers and, after spending six months in captivity, was murdered in an attempted rescue in early 1991.
Following the attack against Uribe Turbay, they increased requests for moderation in the tone of political discussion, especially Petro, accused of offending and threatening his opponents, a problem that grew with the president’s insistence on calling for a popular consultation to approve labor reform.
“I was asked to moderate the tone and I commit to doing so, but moderating the tone does not mean not to say truths,” said the Left Colombian President two weeks ago.
Uribe Turbay, from the Democratic Centro Centro Party, was shot in the head and one in the leg while making a rally in Bogota aiming at the 2026 presidential elections.
Since then, he has been hospitalized in a hospital in the Colombian capital in serious condition. Authorities try to find the intellectual authors of the attack.
Four people were detained for participation in this case, including the shooter, a minor under 15, and three other suspects pointed out as “co -authors.”
