The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) issued a Red Notice this Friday against six leaders of the Second Marquetalia, a dissident faction of the FARC led by alias Iván Márquez, for their alleged responsibility in the assassination of Colombian Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay.The director of the Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dijín), Colonel Elver Vicente Alfonso Sanabria, confirmed that the notifications have already been issued, meaning the wanted individuals will be sought in the organization's 196 member countries, including Venezuela, where it is presumed several of the fugitives are taking refuge.“It has already been authorized, it has already been issued (...) the Red Notice against each of these leaders,” the official stated to journalists, emphasizing that the measure activates international cooperation mechanisms for their location and capture.According to authorities, the wanted individuals are considered the alleged masterminds of the shooting attack on Uribe Turbay, carried out last year in Bogotá.Among those sought with the Red Notice are alias Iván Márquez, Jhon 40, and Aldinever El Zarco, the top leaders of that illegal armed group.Colonel Sanabria added that the Colombian state's priority is “to achieve the judicialization and capture of the last responsible” for the crime, and he stressed that authorities maintain active rewards for anyone who provides information that allows the arrest warrants to be enforced.Interpol's Red Notice is the closest mechanism to an international arrest warrant and allows member countries to be alerted to individuals wanted for serious crimes.Senator Uribe Turbay, 39, and a member of the right-wing opposition party Democratic Center, was wounded with two shots to the head during a rally on June 7 in the Bogotá neighborhood of Modelia and died on August 11, after more than two months admitted to a clinic.Nine people have been arrested for this assassination, and four of them have already been convicted, including the teenager who shot him.The assassination is considered one of the most serious episodes of political violence in Colombia in recent decades, and authorities attribute the intellectual authorship of the crime to the Second Marquetalia, a dissident group of the former FARC that took up arms again after the 2016 peace agreement.
