Another person implicated in the murder of Miguel Uribe has been arrested: seven have now been arrested.

The Attorney General's Office arrested Harold Daniel Barragán Ovalle this Saturday in Bogotá . He is accused of participating in the planning of the assassination of Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, which occurred on June 7 in the capital.

According to the prosecution , Barragán is suspected of having participated in the hiring of the 15-year-old teenager who shot the congressman and who was caught red-handed minutes after the attack.

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The minor was sentenced last Wednesday to seven years of imprisonment in a specialized center , the maximum sentence contemplated in Colombia's Adolescent Criminal Responsibility System.

Major General Carlos Fernando Triana, director general of the Police , stated that Barragán, with more than ten years of criminal history, was involved in the attack perpetrated on June 7 in the Modelia neighborhood from the planning to the execution.

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This is the seventh person arrested in the investigation , and he will be brought before a judge for the legalization of his arrest and the indictment of aggravated homicide, aggravated conspiracy to commit a crime, the use of minors in the commission of crimes, and aggravated illegal possession of firearms.

Uribe Turbay, 39, was a senator for the right-wing Democratic Center party and was emerging as a presidential candidate for the 2026 elections . Seriously wounded in the attack, he died on August 11 after spending more than two months in the hospital .

Attorney General Luz Adriana Camargo classified the crime as a murder and stated that, in addition to the perpetrators already prosecuted, authorities are still on the trail of those responsible, without ruling out the involvement of the FARC dissident group known as the Second Marquetalia.

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The assassination of Uribe Turbay, the first assassination of a presidential candidate in more than three decades, has shaken the presidential campaign less than a year before the elections and rekindled fears that Colombia could repeat episodes of political violence like those of 1990, when Luis Carlos Galán, Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, and Carlos Pizarro were assassinated. EFE