Luis Díaz’s father, Luis Manuel Díaz, is nicknamed “Mane”. in Barrancas in April 2022.Camilo Rozo
The parents of soccer player Luis Díaz were kidnapped this Saturday in Barracas, a town in La Guajira, a Colombian region on the Caribbean Sea. According to authorities, the couple was at a gas station when armed men approached them and took them away. President Gustavo Petro reported half an hour later that the mother had been released and the search for the father was continuing.
The “lockdown plan” developed by @PoliciaColombia made possible the rescue of the mother of the football player Luis Díaz, Mrs. Cilenis Marulanda, who was found by our uniformed personnel thanks to an effective and vigorous institutional effort. pic.twitter.com/WQL0lzkPwH
— General William René Salamanca Ramírez (@DirectorPolicia) October 28, 2023
The country’s police chief, William René Salamanca, published a video on social networks in which he tried to speak to the mother, Cilenis Marulanda. “Let’s keep looking for the father, we already have the mother safe and sound. “His integrity and health are without problems,” Salamanca is heard saying, who has announced that he will travel to the site to personally take care of the investigation. Petro explained that Marulanda was saved thanks to the road closure ordered by authorities after learning the news.
Police feared something like this could happen to the family of the Colombian soccer team’s star player. A year and a half ago, he asked Luis Manuel Díaz, his father, not to visit his coffee farm in the mountains for fear that a local mafia would kidnap him. As he told this newspaper, Díaz did not sleep in the same place every night and was on guard in case someone followed him when he drove around. His son, who plays for Liverpool, faces Nottingham Forest this Sunday at 9am Colombia time.
The Attorney General’s Office said on social networks: “From that moment on Office of the Attorney General The General of the Nation learned of the kidnapping of the parents of the Colombian player Luis Díaz in the Barrancas sector La Guajiraa specialized team of prosecutors, officers from the Technical Investigation Corps, CTIand investigators from the Gaula police and the military are working urgently to determine the whereabouts of these people, clarify the facts and find those responsible.”
(news in development)
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