President Petro sends a message to his son Nicolás: “I hope we can forgive each other”

Colombian President, Gustavo Petroassured this Saturday that what happened to his eldest son, Nicholas Petro Burgos, charged by the Prosecutor’s Office for money laundering and illicit enrichment, is “terrible” and he hopes that later they can reconcile this crisis that has triggered the biggest scandal of his Government.

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“What happened to my son is terrible and very unfortunate for me. Hopefully one day I can talk to him and forgive us”, expressed the head of state on Twitter.

The relationship between father and son is not one of the best and the president has been widely criticized because last Saturday, upon learning of the arrest of Nicholasdistanced himself from him and published a tweet in which he stated that it hurts “so much self-destruction” and, after wishing him luck, he indicated that he hopes “May these events forge your character and you can reflect on your own mistakes.”

This Saturday, in an interview with Semana magazine, Nicholas Petro confirmed that last Wednesday, in the midst of the biggest political scandal in the country in recent times, he did not want to receive a visit from his father in the bunker of the Prosecutor’s Office in Bogotá where he was detained.

“I spent some time sending him messages through other people to talk to him and I never got a response”said Petro Burgos.

Even last March, when daysuris vasquezex-wife of Nicholas Petrorevealed that he had received illicit money for his father’s campaign and had stayed with him, the president also distanced himself from his firstborn by stating that he was not the one who raised him.

“He grew up in Córdoba (…) he studied there and did his university there, law; We never really had a chance to live together, I didn’t raise him, that’s the reality”, the president assured then in an interview with Cambio magazine.

He Municipal Criminal Judge 74 with guarantee control functions ordered on Friday at a hearing in Bogota that Petro Burgos and vasquez respond freely, but with restrictions, to the process they face for money laundering and other crimes, a case that has plagued the Government.

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The president also reiterated today that his 2022 campaign “He did not receive any money from illicit character” and he found out about what happened “through a meeting I had with the ex-wife of Nicholas in my office just a few months ago when I asked that my son be investigated.”

“As I said before, as president I will not put pressure on justice in your case, the judicial officials who intervene in your process will be respected by me”, added the head of state.

The president ends his message by saying that he hopes that his grandson “will be able to meet his father in freedom”, something that he could not do with Nicolás because he was imprisoned as a member of the guerrilla group April 19 Movement (M-19).

“I met Nicholas at the bars of my prison. Even in the most terrible you learn that all my sons and daughters, including Nicholas and myself, we can with this hard experience be better human beings”, he added.

After his separation with vasquezfrom whom he has not officially divorced, Petro Burgos he began a romantic relationship with Laura Ojeda, who is now eight months pregnant.

Source: Elcomercio

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