Manuel Ranoque, father of the youngsters rescued after spending 39 within the Colombian jungle, denounced this Sunday that the Carolina Ramírez Front of the guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has threatened him with demise.
“The Carolina Ramírez entrance is on the lookout for me to kill me. I’ve threats as a result of for them I’m a goal. I do know that these shameless individuals, to begin with, can begin to stress me with my kids and I’ll by no means permit that,” Ranoque defined in statements collected by the Colombian press.
The man, who additionally serves as governor of the Uitoto Los Monos neighborhood, has assured that alleged members of this group brazenly threatened him and claims to be in possession of audio recordings that show it. For this motive he fled from his neighborhood a month earlier than the accident.
“They have an financial curiosity and so long as one doesn’t settle for what they are saying, one is an enemy for them. They are going to search for me straight right here, that they’re going to ship an individual straight right here,” he stated.
Ranoque has additionally requested for “respectable housing” for him and his kids. “I want to ensure the research to my kids. I want the safety of my life and that of my kids,” he appealed.
On the opposite hand, Ranoque has expressed his discomfort at the truth that the authorities visited with cameras the Central Military Hospital in Bogotá the place his kids are admitted and has requested the press to not publish extra pictures of the minors. On Saturday, President Gustavo Petro and several other navy officers visited the youngsters on the hospital and printed the pictures.
“I disagree with that. How are they going to take my kids as objects of ridicule, if I, who am the daddy, am not doing that… in order that different people who find themselves completely positive right here, consuming and sleeping properly, depart there, allow them to in, take images of my kids, unfold them on social networks? That’s unfair. I hope God forgives them,” he added.
In addition, Ranoque has lamented as a result of he had no assist in the course of the time he was looking within the jungle and since many individuals who collaborated at the moment are asking him for cash as a result of they suppose the authorities have given him a big sum.
“President, respect our rules as an indigenous individuals. I hope you compensate all of the comrades who had been within the search. The fact is, I haven’t got a single useful resource to even give my comrades a pink wine,” he identified.
The 4 kids from the Muinane indigenous neighborhood of Puerto Sábalo had been touring with their mom, Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia, on a airplane that crashed within the jungle. The mom died within the accident, however the 4 minors – aged 13, 9, 4 and a child who turned one yr outdated within the jungle – managed to outlive alone for 39 days, till they had been rescued.
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