Impossible that Uribe did not know about phone hacking: Durant

[Judi Lynn]

Impossible that Uribe did not know about phone hacking: Durant
Friday, 15 July 2011 15:47
Alexander Stone

The vice president of the European Parliament has said that it is impossible that ex-President Alvaro Uribe did not know about the illegal telephone interceptions carried out by the Colombian intelligence agency (DAS).

"It is impossible to think that (Uribe) didn't know," said Isabelle Durant during a press conference in Bogota on Friday, reported El Espectador.

Durant has been in Colombia for five days, having been invited by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the delegation of the European Union (EU) to meet with people involved in the case.

At the end of November 2010, a total of 43 people including the ex-Senator Piedad Cordoba and politician Ivan Cepeda, accused Uribe, who governed the country for two consecutive terms from 2002 to 2010, of initiating "crimes against humanity, psychological torture, and political persecution."

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