Oyarbide slams Federal Police over bomb misinformation

Federal judge Norberto Oyarbide said he was “very sad” for the way the police had handled the case involving the discovery of an explosive device targeting former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe and warned that “there are strange things going on.”

“Someone is trying to play judge here,” he complained after learning that police investigations had concluded that the explosive device found was nothing more than a loud firecracker. 

“I’m the only one with the power to order such an investigation,” he emphasized. “I don’t know who made the call to do it,” he added. 

Oyarbide indicated that upon his arrival at the theater on Tuesday, “a high-ranking anti-terrorism officer in the Federal Police reported that the device was indeed a bomb. However, a few hours later, a new police report surfaces assuring that the bomb was actually less dangerous than a stink bomb.”

“As a judge, I’m very sad. There are strange things going on here,” he said while speaking to the press. 

“It was a loud firecracker, with barely any destructive force,” the press representative for the Federal Police had stated in a press conference on Tuesday.

Oyarbide, along with his secretary Carlos Leiva, carried out an inspection of the premises and seized several recordings from the theater’s security cameras in order to determine the identity of the perpetrator who placed the explosive.