{"id":296265,"date":"2023-11-12T02:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T02:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=296265"},"modified":"2023-11-12T02:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T02:24:27","slug":"colombian-police-arrest-four-men-after-luis-diazs-father-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/colombian-police-arrest-four-men-after-luis-diazs-father-is-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian police arrest four men after Luis Diaz&apos;s father is released"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Colombian police arrest four men allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Luis Diaz&#8217;s father&#8230; after he was held in captivity for 12 days following his seizure at gunpoint<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Colombian police have arrested four men allegedly involved in the kidnapping<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Luis Manuel Diaz was released from captivity on Thursday after 12 days\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why we should get excited about Cole Palmer &#8211; Listen here to It&#8217;s All Coming Up\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Colombian police have arrested four men allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Luis Diaz&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Manuel Diaz was freed on Thursday after 12 days in captivity, having been taken by armed members of the left-wing guerrilla group Ejercito de Liberation Nacional (ELN) on October 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife were captured at gunpoint\u00a0when they stopped for watermelons at a petrol station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, Colombian police say they have arrested four members of a criminal group called Los Primos (The Cousins).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have detained four people allegedly responsible for the kidnapping of Luis Manuel Diaz,&#8217; the National Police of Colombia wrote on X, formerly Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/01\/77612675-0-This_is_the_first_image_of_Luis_Manuel_Diaz_pictured_centre_the_-a-114_1699751836894.jpg\" height=\"285\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Colombian Police have arrested four men allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Luis Diaz&#8217;s father (centre)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/01\/77612677-0-Diaz_Snr_received_medical_care_on_the_mountainside_after_a_helic-a-115_1699751879288.jpg\" height=\"652\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Diaz Snr received medical care after being rescued following 12 days in captivity as his family and friends held their breath\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/01\/77545469-0-Luis_Manuel_Diaz_the_father_of_Liverpool_forward_Luis_Diaz_is_fr-a-116_1699751917702.jpg\" height=\"468\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He was taken at gunpoint with his wife by members of the left-wing guerrilla group Ejercito de Liberation Nacional (ELN)<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>William Ren\u00e9 Salamanca Ram\u00edrez, Director General of the National Police of Colombia, wrote: &#8216;In coordination with @FiscaliaCol [the Attorney General&#8217;s Office], we captured, in Maicao and Barrancas (La Guajira), four people accused of participating in the kidnapping of Mr. Luis Manuel D\u00edaz, father of &#8216;Lucho&#8217; D\u00edaz, star of our Colombian Soccer Team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We launched &#8220;Operation Freedom&#8221; on the same day of the kidnapping, which allowed us to identify the alleged intellectual and material authors, among them the criminal group &#8216;Los Primos&#8217;, which commits crimes through criminal outsourcing.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrested men have been named locally as Andrys Alcides Bolivar Bol\u00edvar; Marlon Rafael Brito Bolivar; Brayan Javier Morales Sanjuan; and Yerdinson Bolivar Bolivar, according to the Daily Mirror.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Diaz&#8217;s mother,\u00a0Cilenis Marulanda, was freed on the same night of the capture, his father endured 12 days of uncertainty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they could not rule out the possibility that he had been smuggled over the border to Venezuela through a dense jungle, meaning he would have been out of reach of Colombian police. A reward of about \u00a340,000 was offered for crucial information.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people took to the streets of Barrancas to demand his safe release, with Colombia&#8217;s police and military forces working together in an effort to bring him home safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/12\/01\/77695607-12739137-He_thanked_God_for_a_second_chance_after_he_was_taken_into_the_h-a-74_1699752537893.jpg\" height=\"414\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He thanked God for a &#8216;second chance&#8217; after\u00a0he was taken into the hands of a &#8216;humanitarian commission&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, he\u00a0was taken into the hands of a &#8216;humanitarian commission&#8217; made up of the Catholic church and the UN.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking down in tears as he spoke for the first time since his release, Diaz Sr said: &#8216;I ask my brothers from the mountains, let&#8217;s put down our weapons, let&#8217;s use the pen and the notebook, let&#8217;s work to make it Colombia is the country that has the best peace.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family gathered in his neighbourhood to greet him upon his return, with Diaz thanking God for &#8216;a second chance&#8217; after driving back home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thank Colombia for this great support&#8217;, he added. &#8216;Very soon I will have the opportunity to greet them and give them a hug. 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