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It is expected to arrive in Colombia next Saturday on a flight that will land at the El Dorado airport in Bogotá.
Andrés Ballesteros, the Colombian who was imprisoned without evidence in Tanzania for 8 years, is released
Andrés Felipe Ballesteros, the Colombian national who had been imprisoned for eight years, without evidence against him, in Tanzania, has finally achieved his freedom this Thursday, after a judge declared him officially free.
“My brother Andrés Felipe, at this moment, is hearing from the judge the document that enshrines him as a free man. We made it! Freedom “, wrote Juan Ballesteros on Twitter, where he thanked all the people who got involved to help his relative get out of jail and contributed money to pay for the ” fine” that the Tanzanian justice demanded, because the State, for legal reasons, could not do it.
In addition, he commented that he had had a one-minute conversation with his brother and he said that with his release he too felt like he was getting out of prison. “We will talk more being free. I also get out of prison. Now I will tell you and I will try to greet you,” he added.
For his part, journalist Andrés Felipe Giraldo, who has been personally involved in the case and has become a friend of the family, explained that Ballesteros’ return trip will begin the night of this Thursday and is expected to arrive in Colombia next Saturday.
“Saturday 22 (October), at 2: 00 pm, you will be landing at El Dorado Airport on a KLM flight from of Amsterdam. Receive it for me, with love ,” wrote Giraldo on Twitter, who will not be able to attend the arrival of Ballesteros because he is working in the province of Mocoa.
“On Saturday please go. The embrace of your compatriots will be the vindication of the people to compensate for what the State did not want to do r in eight years. Two months of political will and a popular government were enough to give freedom to an abandoned nobody. Let’s all go to El Dorado ,” said the communicator, who explained that the expenses of Andrés’ return, including tickets, are paid with the surplus of money contributed by Colombian citizens to free him.
please. The embrace of his compatriots will be the vindication of the people to compensate for what the State did not want to do in eight years. Two months of political will and a popular government were enough to give freedom to an abandoned nobody. Let’s all go to El Dorado 13-two: 00pm+KLM
— The Anti-Twitter. (@andrefelgiraldo) October 10, 2022
The case of Ballesteros
Andrés Felipe Ballesteros Uribe, who now has 36 years old, was imprisoned eight years ago, in an irregular procedure and without evidence, in a prison in Tanzania, on the east coast of central Africa.
The event occurred in August 2022, after Ballesteros will take a vacation trip to celebrate his birthday number 28. The plan was to visit the beaches of that country and get to know a new destination, one of his passions.
He is the only hero of the story. The only protagonist. The only one who endured eight years enduring all the physical, psychological, moral and spiritual adversities that a human being could endure. They are the first photos of him released from him. Hug him on Saturday for me. Thank you pic.twitter.com/tJ0IInBbWq
— El Antituiter. (@andrefelgiraldo) October 10, 2022
In Colombia his wife, parents and children fired him: a seven-year-old girl, who is now 15; and a newborn who is already eight years old.
Upon landing in Dar es-Salam, the city that houses the seat of the Government of Tanzania and the most populous in that country, Ballesteros’ trip turned into hell . The local police arrested him and isolated him from the other passengers.
