Daniel Quintero: already in February we had told the IACHR that there was a plan to remove us from office

"In effect, it was going to happen in any way, because even 10 days before the elections they tried to kill me twice, two attempted murders frustrated by the police (...) We came to power after denouncing as contractors and politicians, some of them now candidates for the presidency of the republic, hid information so that contractors, builders of the dam of the largest infrastructure project in the country, would not pay for the collapse of that project that caused losses of more than USD$3,000 million We made these contractors pay USD$1.1 billion, obviously this has unleashed a series of persecutions," said Daniel Quintero, the suspended mayor of Medellín.Colombia's Attorney General's Office suspended Quintero following accusations that he appeared in a video expressing his support for presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, because Colombian law does not allow public officials to participate in electoral politics.