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ER Editor: This assassination attempt looks contrived to us. This (photo left below) is the precise moment Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay gets shot in the head (video, also here) versus how it’s being presented minutes after the event (right). Wouldn’t a gunshot to the head produce blood at the moment of impact? This BBC report says he was shot TWICE in the head as well as once in the knee. This video doesn’t indicate blood either.
The Guardian has this from 8 hours ago —
Shot Colombian presidential candidate has had successful surgery, mayor says
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Colombian presidential hopeful shot in head (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
Miguel Uribe Turbay was critically wounded in suspected assassination attempt at a campaign event in Bogota
RT
The 39-year-old lawmaker from the right-wing Democratic Center party was meeting supporters when he was shot in the head at around 5pm local time, according to a party statement. He was transported to a hospital in critical condition. One suspect was arrested at the scene.
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“We condemn the serious attack against Senator and presidential pre-candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay,” the Democratic Center wrote in a post on X, denouncing the incident as politically motivated.
President Gustavo Petro condemned the shooting and ordered a full investigation to punish the “scum of humanity” behind the attack. “My sympathy to the Uribe family and the Turbay family. I do not know how to mitigate their pain,” he wrote on X.
Translation: Miguel Uribe Turbay was completely unprotected when he was attacked from behind and on his head.
ER: The white car gives maximum visual blood impact. Why was he taken to this car?
Acaban de atentar contra el precandidato presidencial Miguel Uribe, del Centro Democrático, en Bogotá. Primeras versiones indican que Uribe fue atacado por detrás por un hombre, quien le disparó, al parecer, en la cabeza. https://t.co/if1kX8qDUN pic.twitter.com/y1kKJDDQLs
— Revista Semana (@RevistaSemana) June 7, 2025
Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia also responded: “Violence can never be the way… I sincerely hope that (Uribe) is well and out of danger.”
Uribe, a vocal critic of the current administration, announced his candidacy for the 2026 presidential election earlier this year. The incident marks one of the most serious attacks on a national political figure in Colombia in decades. No comparable assassination attempt has occurred since the early 1990s, during the era of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
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Featured image source, right: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/8/colombias-would-be-presidential-contender-miguel-uribe-shot-wounded
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