(CNN Spanish) -
The Attorney General's Office of Colombia reported this Sunday that it opened an investigation and ordered the capture for investigative purposes of Iván Luciano Marín Arango, alias Iván Márquez, one of the leaders of the dissidence of the demobilized FARC guerrilla, for his alleged participation in the murder of politician and journalist Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and his bodyguard on November 2, 1995.
Iván Márquez is a fugitive from justice and so far has not reacted to the announcement of the Prosecutor's Office.
In July 2018, he gave up assuming a senatorial position that had been awarded to him as a result of the peace accords with the government.
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Later he went underground together with other former leaders of the organization who rejected those agreements and reactivated dissident sectors of the guerrilla.
Márquez reappeared in mid-January in an online video to announce his support for an initiative to revoke the mandate of President Iván Duque.
In October 2020, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) reported that the former guerrilla secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia assumed responsibility for the murder of six people, including Gómez Hurtado.
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In its statement, the Prosecutor's Office indicated that former members of the FARC told the JEP that the crime was ordered by the then secretariat and discussed in the group's so-called general staff.
"Gómez Hurtado was considered an armed target so, at the time, an order was given to the Antonio Nariño urban network to attempt against his life," the Prosecutor's Office indicated.
According to the statement, a prosecutor found elements that would account for the alleged responsibility of the FARC in the crime and that is why she ordered the involvement of Márquez, who at the time of Gómez Hurtado's murder belonged to the group's top leadership.
The Prosecutor's Office clarifies that with this opening of the investigation, it does not renounce other hypotheses, but rather advances to clarify the crime.
The statement from the Prosecutor's Office does not specify whether the arrest warrant includes other leaders who were part of the FARC secretary at the same time.
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Álvaro Gómez Hurtado Iván Márquez