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A retired police major accused of participating in the 1989 murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan surrendered on Monday to authorities.
According to reports Luis Felipe Montilla Barbosa, the former police official who was in charge of Galan’s security at the time of his killing, surrendered to police at Bogota’s National Police Club.
Earlier on Monday, the prosecutor general of human rights ordered the arrest of the police officer, suspecting him and a former state security agency employee of aggrevated homicide.
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Galan was murdered on the 18 August 1989 while participating in a political manifestation in the central Cundinamarca department.
