Cycling nice denies function in slaying of farmers

Colombian biking nice Luis Alberto “Lucho” Herrera has denied allegations made by means of an ex-paramilitary fighter that the 1987 Spanish Vuelta champion used to be concerned within the slayings of 4 farmers 23 years in the past.

A pass judgement on requested the prosecutors’ administrative center to analyze if Herrera requested two paramilitaries in 2002 to kill the farmers, who have been his neighbours in Fusagasugá, a the city situated 70 kilometres south of Bogotá.

“I have never belonged to criminal organisations nor have I ever intended to cause harm to anyone,” the 63-year-old Herrera mentioned in a observation.

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“I have dedicated my life to sport, and after my retirement from professional cycling, to working honestly.”

Herrera, certainly one of his technology’s perfect climbers, become the primary Colombian to win the Spanish Vuelta and has been a job style for different distinguished cyclists reminiscent of Nairo Quintana.

The allegations become public Monday after an investigation by means of native channel Noticias Uno published the sentencing of 2 convicted paramilitary opponents who admitted killing the farmers.

Luis Fernando Gómez, alias “Ojitos,” claimed that he met with Herrera to obtain directions earlier than committing the crime. He mentioned Herrera gave them pictures of the farmers, claiming they have been leftist guerrillas, at the side of an envelope containing cash to shop for guns and a motorbike. He added that once committing the crime, he realised the farmers weren’t guerrillas, however that they’d refused to promote land to Herrera.

The different paramilitary, recognized as Óscar Andrés Huertas, alias “Menudencias,” mentioned that once the homicide, they buried the our bodies on a farm.

“We slit their throats and then dismembered them with a machete,” Huertas mentioned in his account, in step with excerpts from the launched verdict.

A pass judgement on sentenced either one of the boys to 22 years in jail.

Paramilitary teams emerged in Colombia within the 1970s to fight leftist guerrillas and persevered to thrive till the early 2000s.

Herrera mentioned that he used to be knowledgeable of the pass judgement on’s determination to reserve an investigation throughout the press and rejected with “absolute force” the accusations that “seek to tarnish my name and my career”.

He also said that he does not know the two paramilitaries.

“I will be willing to make public statements once I know concretely and precisely the charges against me by people I do not know and I can prove my complete innocence,” Herrera mentioned.