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Timochenko confirms that FARC dissidents wanted to kill him 1:29
(CNN Spanish) - In an interview with a Colombian media outlet, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri aka Timochenko, spoke about the attack against him that the Colombian police say he frustrated.
The president of the Common Revolutionary Alternative Force (FARC) political party said in his interview with the media La Crónica de Quindío, which took place on Tuesday in the Armenia municipality, department of Quindío, that last November had already been warned about The plan against him.
MIRA: Timochenko on plan to attempt against his life: I trust the police
“Since November I was called to the UNP, the National Protection Unit, and a senior police officer along with my security officers were informing me that a plan to attack has been discovered and that the command I was going to do was ready, that the decision was not to do it in Bogotá because they saw it very complex and that they were going to wait for me to leave the region to enter to execute the attack, ”said Londoño in his interview.
He explained that when he was already in Quindío he was told that the "threat is around the farm" where he was. “There were the facts that everyone and Colombia know. Fortunately nothing happened and I am, thanks to them (police), here telling Colombia and the world that I continue to form in my commitment to the peace of Colombia. ”
MIRA: Colombian police say they thwarted an attack against 'Timochenko', leader of the FARC party
The Colombian police reported on Sunday that an operation was carried out in which two people who intended to carry out a “terrorist action” against Timochenko died.
In a statement, police said the attack was "imminent" and that in the operation died alias 'Guamby' and alias 'Conejo' or 'Kaleth', who would be "members of the terrorist cell under Hernán Darío Velásquez Saldarriaga aka "The Paisa."
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