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(CNN Spanish) -
A group of unidentified men shot the vehicle in which the security team of former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba was traveling.
General Carlos Rodríguez, commander of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, told the media that the events occurred this Wednesday night in the town of Kennedy.
The car was parked with the driver inside and an escort outside when the unknown men threatened the latter with a firearm and stole a manned weapon.
There were no injuries.
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To prevent theft, the driver sped up the armored van and was shot in the window there.
The former senator was not at the scene.
Although the subjects fled, one of them was arrested and the authorities seized an illegally carried revolver and recovered the stolen weapon.
According to the authorities, he was prosecuted for trafficking and carrying a firearm and qualified and aggravated theft.
In addition, they located the vehicle in which this group was traveling and are now investigating who the occupants would have been.
Piedad Córdoba thanked the police for the reaction, although she expressed distrust for the version of the robbery.
"Respectfully, I allow myself to ask: Who mobilizes 8 armed men in various vehicles to attack a van and finally only steal a weapon?" She wrote on her Twitter account.
Medellín 2019, they enter my house, they point a gun at my son.
"It was a robbery"
Bogotá 2019, they entered my house and took computers.
"A robbery"
Last night 8 men shoot and take a gun.
"A robbery"
One of two, or the robbers are with my photo, or they are not "robberies"
- Piedad Córdoba ✊🏽 (@piedadcordoba) October 1, 2020
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