‘El Mindo’ denounced threats against him for photos with Andrés Escobar and asked for respect for his life and that of his family.
After the activist Beto Coral made public the identity of one of the armed civilians who was shooting at demonstrators in the Ciudad Jardín neighborhood in Calion March 28 in the framework of the National Strike, a controversy was generated on social networks.
Well, the armed subject was identified as Andres Escobara publicist and entrepreneur who works with social networks, for which would have carried out some projects with influencers such as Mateo Carvajal, ‘El Mindo’, among others, with which he appears in several photographs.
Although in the video Coral clarified that said content creators “They have no responsibility and that they were assaulted in good faith because they were hired by a criminal”, thousands of Internet users went against them, even going so far as to threaten them with death.
In this regard, the winner of the ‘Super Human Challenge 2017‘ spoke through Instagram storiesassuring that although he worked with Escobar in the past, he currently has no other type of relationship with him, beyond work.
While ‘El Mindo’, who had remained silent for several days and had even been branded a «paramilitary», decided to speak recently through a video on his official Instagram accountwhere he not only referred to the photographs in which he appears next to Escobar, but also to a collage in which a photograph of him was related to a hooded individual holding a gun.
In this video, ‘El Mindo’ denounced threats against him for photos with Andrés Escobar
In the recording he began by expressing that rejects all types of violence, both physical and verbal, and that although he is aware of its scope, he does not agree to share any type of unverified information and that this also generates more violence.
He spoke out in front of the photographs of armed hooded men with which he has been related, assuring that this is clearly not him and that he has never touched a weapon in his life.
“You can say anything about Armando Ortiz, except that he is a violent person. I have never approached a weapon, I have not fired. I haven’t played paintball or Free Fire or anything like that; The day he suddenly wanted to serve (military) they rejected me because he had flat feet. Fate already told me that I did not need to have a weapon in my hands and I am also grateful for that.
Due to these false accusations, the man from Cali received a whole wave of accusations, attacks and threats, for which he sent a strong message of respect for his life and that of his family.
“I demand my right to respect life, respect for the life of my family and my relatives. I call on earthly justice to clarify all the facts. (…) Before being Armando Ortiz, better known as ‘El Mindo’, I am a citizen, friend, son and boyfriend. I demand respect for my life again.”
Here his message:
So far his video brings together more than 1 million views and thousands of comments in which fans have shown their support.
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