2023-10-30 04:30:00
Colombia is moved by him father kidnapping of the Liverpool forward and figure of the Colombian national team, Luis Diazso the Government moved more than 120 soldiers supported by police and offered a reward of $48,500 for information that allows locating and rescuing Luis Manuel Diaz.
The man was kidnapped on Saturday afternoon along with his wife, Cilenis Marulanda, who was rescued hours after the kidnapping, but still nothing is known about the Colombian soccer player’s father. The event occurred in the municipality of Barrancas, in the department of La Guajira, in northern Colombia, the agency reported. Archyde.com.
According to local media, the parents were at a gas station when armed individuals traveling on motorcycles intercepted the van in which they were traveling and took them away.
The Liverpool forward’s mother was rescued safely at dusk on Saturday.
“I announce, by instruction of the Minister of Defense, a reward of up to 200 million pesos to whoever gives us information that allows us to find the whereabouts of Don Luis Díaz,” said the director of the National Police, General William René Salamanca.
The officer assured that for now they lack information about those responsible and declined to confirm if it was an extortionate kidnapping, the agency stated. AFP.
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Army and National Police troops, supported by helicopters and dronesmaintain an operation to locate and rescue the soccer player’s father, which includes roadblocks in a large area of the north of the country.
The reasons and authors of the kidnapping of Luis Manuel Díaz are unknown
The attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, admitted the possibility that the Liverpool forward’s father has been taken to Venezuelaand said he ordered an investigation to establish the reasons for the kidnapping and identify the perpetrators.
“There is information that he could, at a certain time, be in Venezuela. And if he crosses the border and is in Venezuela, we must ask President Gustavo Petro, who is a friend of those authorities, to help us with the release of Luis Díaz’s father,” said the official.
In Colombia they are kidnappings for extortion are frequent by groups of organized crimeaccording to security sources.
Colombia is a country traversed by six decades of armed conflict that leaves a balance of 9.5 million victims, 38,028 of them kidnapped.
“The police recovered your mother yesterday and they are fully prepared, all public forces have been deployed so that your father can be recovered,” declared the president of Colombia in Bogotá, Gustavo Petroduring the start of the local elections this Sunday in which mayors, governors and regional deputies were elected.
“Quick release for him because we are desperate“We are distressed, we don’t know anything about him,” he told the agency. AFP Olmer Díazuncle of the soccer star and brother of the kidnapped Luis Manuel Díaz.
“We don’t know what to do so that he can have his freedom soon and be able to have him back home,” added Olmer Díaz, 67, during an interview in Barrancas where the family is from.
Luis Manuel Díaz was an amateur coach of the only soccer school in the town of about 38,000 inhabitants where his son from a very young age showed the speed, resistance and ability to avoid rival players that would later lead him to stardom.
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Liverpool’s reaction to Lucho Díaz’s bad moment
The coach of Liverpool of England, Jürgen Kloppsaid that everyone at the club is worried about the kidnapping of Díaz’s father, who was excluded from the team for the match in which they beat Nottingham Forest 3-0 in the Premier League.
“Obviously we had to make a last minute change because of Luis Diaz’s private situation,” Klopp said before Sunday’s game at Anfield.
“It is a worrying situation for all of us and it was a pretty hard night. It had never happened to me, it is a new experience that I never needed,” he commented.
The Portuguese Diogo Jotawho scored 1-0 for Liverpool, He celebrated by showing the Díaz shirt as a sign of support and solidarity with his teammate.
Liverpool assured in a statement that it is aware of the situation involving Díaz’s family and that its priority is the player’s well-being.
“We fervently hope that the matter is resolved safely and as soon as possible. In the meantime, the player’s well-being will remain our immediate priority,” the club said in a statement.
Díaz, 26 years old and who has played 43 times for the Colombian national team, was signed by Liverpool in January of last year in a deal with Porto of Portugal valued at 45 million euros ($47.5 million).
“Lucho” Díaz has not yet commented on the matter, he only reposted the image of his partner Joya showing his shirt as a sign of support. The 26-year-old Wayuu indigenous is a forward for Liverpool and the Colombian national team. Last year he was among the 20 finalists for the Ballon d’Or and was the top scorer in the 2021 Copa América.
For the first time, an indigenous person from Colombia is among the soccer elite, in a country where 4.4% of the population belongs to some indigenous community and its most famous athletes are born in the Black Pacific.
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