Attack on Colombia senator, Miguel Uibe Turbay, took the video

Everything was captured on video.

A assassination attempt Against a Colombian senator and presidential hope on Saturday horrified a large part of the nation, and not only because it represents the most prominent political violence in the country for years.

The attempt against Miguel Uibe Turbay, 39, conservative politician and grandson of a former president, took place during a campaign event in the capital, Bogotá, while a small army of mobile phone rolled. Videos that spread quickly online and were verified by the New York Times show the suspect Listen to Mr. Uibe give a campaign speech, then shoot it from behind, run awayand finally be plug -in While Mr. Uibe bleeds abundantly nearby, run by his crying colleagues.

A white car smeared with his blood, illustrated in many videos and photos, quickly became a symbol of the attack. And the videos, taken together, came to reflect the fears of certain Colombians that the nation turned to the violence which shaped it from the 1980s in the early 2000s, when the attacks linked to drug traffickers and leftist guerrillas were regular events in big cities.

“We lived a terrifying period,” said Sonia Ballen, 61, who walked many houses of houses on Sunday with other supporters of Mr. Uibe in the hospital where he was treated. “And here, we start to see him again.”

Sunday morning, the medical director of the hospital, the Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá, said That the state of Mr. Uibe was “extremely serious”. Director, Dr. Adolfo Llinás Volpe, said the hospital would not publish information on the senator’s prognosis.