Petro demands that Colombian prosecutors act to extradite ELN “capo” from Spain

MADRID, December 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Monday blamed his country’s prosecutor’s office for, according to him, not having “requested the extradition” from Spain of Gerly Sánchez Villamizar, alias “monkey Gerley”, whom he identified as a “capo” of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas.

“Strangely, the Colombian public prosecutor’s office has not requested the extradition of the pseudo ‘monkey Gerley’, detained in Spain. He is the main money launderer of the ELN racket. He is the boss”, declared the president on his social network account X, introducing the hypothesis that the public prosecutor had not started the process to say that he was “his ally”. However, he denied this possibility, saying he was not “an ally of those who systematically murder peasants out of greed.”

“Madam Attorney General of the Nation, ask Colombia to extradite the monkey Gerley from Spain,” he reiterated, appealing to the director, Luz Adriana Camargo, and recalling that the prisoner “is admitted to the Soto del Real prison, pending the extradition that Interpol is processing.”

Although the Prosecutor’s Office has not issued an official statement on the matter, sources from the Public Prosecutor’s Office told ‘El Tiempo’ that it began the process on November 28, “through the corresponding legal and diplomatic channels, without omissions or delays.”