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Field footage · Necoclí, Antioquia, Colombia (capture area)

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Colombia captures Clan del Golfo leader 'Otoniel', Oct. 2021

A man in a black T-shirt and face mask stands at a table while a forensic officer in a lab coat takes his fingerprints, beside a masked, helmeted officer holding a rifle, with Colombian flags behind.
MinDefensa Colombia (YouTube, CC BY 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0

Frame from a video published Oct. 28, 2021 by Colombia's Ministry of Defence (MinDefensa Colombia) on YouTube under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, mirrored on Wikimedia Commons. It shows Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, alias 'Otoniel', then top leader of the Clan del Golfo, standing beside a forensic officer taking his fingerprints, with a masked, armed police commando beside him. Colombia's government said he was captured on Oct. 23, 2021 in Operation Osiris, a joint police and military operation in rural Necoclí, Antioquia. Archive item tied to the Clan del Golfo record and to the Oct. 17, 2026 capture of a Clan del Golfo commander in Carepa, Antioquia, announced by Colombia's military.

What
Colombia captures Clan del Golfo leader 'Otoniel', Oct. 2021
Where
Necoclí, Antioquia, Colombia (capture area)
When
2021-10-28
Source
Ministry of Defence of Colombia
Credit
MinDefensa Colombia (YouTube, CC BY 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
License
CC BY 3.0
Details
Official release · Ministry of Defence of Colombia (MinDefensa) · Necoclí, Antioquia, Colombia (capture area)

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Sources and credit

  1. Ministry of Defence of Colombia
  2. Field footage: the full record

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