Miguel Uribe’s Lawyer Files Criminal Complaint Against Colombian President for Alleged Harassment

Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay looks on after the Senate voted against the government labor reform referendum promoted by Colombian President Gustavo Petro in Bogotá, Colombia, on May 14, 2025. Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images

Víctor Mosquera Marín, the lawyer for Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, filed a lawsuit on June 24 against Colombian President Gustavo Petro for alleged harassment.

Petro wrote 43 posts on social media promoting “a hostile, discriminatory, and hateful environment against Miguel Uribe,” Mosquera said on June 24 at a press conference outside the Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá University Hospital, where Uribe remains hospitalized.

Uribe has been fighting for his life since June 7, after being shot several times in the back while campaigning for the 2026 presidential elections in a park in the Fontibón neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia.

“I am not saying that it is directly related to the attack he suffered, but it did create an environment that could have led to this attack, and that is why we have filed a criminal complaint against the president of the Republic with the Accusations Commission,” the lawyer added.

Mosquera went on to say that “the president of the republic has been utterly irresponsible in his accusations against opposition leaders.”

The lawyer cited as an example one of the messages posted by Petro on his social media accounts on June 5, two days before the attack on Uribe, which reads, according to a translation: “My God! The grandson of a president who ordered the torture of 10,000 Colombians is talking about institutional breakdown?”

“This is extremely serious,“ Mosquera said. ”It generates hatred among the population and polarization, which is why we are asking the Accusations Commission to investigate and determine whether the president’s conduct constitutes hate speech.”

Mosquera added that Petro made “very serious accusations during these three years” against Uribe.

The lawyer asked the Colombian authorities to find those responsible for the attack on Uribe and “follow logical lines of investigation.”

Article 134B of the Colombian Penal Code criminalizes “anyone who promotes or instigates acts, conduct, or behavior constituting harassment, aimed at causing physical or moral harm to a person, group of persons, community, or people, on the basis of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, political or philosophical ideology, sex, or sexual orientation.”

The crime is punishable by 12 to 36 months in prison and a fine of 10 to 15 times the minimum monthly wage, “unless the conduct constitutes a crime punishable by a greater penalty.”

The Epoch Times contacted Petro and Mosquera for comment but received no response by publication time.

On the same day, the Colombian Attorney General’s Office reported that four people have been indicted in the Uribe attack case and that there are more than 300 investigative and analytical activities.

Those indicted include the teenager who allegedly shot the congressman. Another man charged, Carlos Eduardo Mora González, allegedly participated in activities before the attack and provided the vehicle he was driving so that others involved could pass the firearm to the teenager on the day of the attack.

Others charged were Katerine Andrea Martínez Martínez, who was allegedly responsible for transporting and delivering the gun used by the teenager and ensuring that the crime was carried out, and William Fernando González Cruz, who was allegedly involved in planning, locating, and selecting the minor who fired the shots, as well as helping the others involved in the attack to flee.