A Colombian soldier from the French Foreign Legion escaped from a dissident guerrilla of the former FARC after four days on the run

After being held by the rebels of the Central General Staff (EMC) in Nariño, in southwestern Colombia, Melo Charry was able access a police station on your ownstated the newspaper The Time.

The soldier passed four days on the run before reaching this position located in the municipality of Polycarp on Saturday night and hours later, on Sunday morning, he was transferred by helicopter to the capital of Nariño, according to the newspaper.

Around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday (Colombian time), Melo Charry appeared at the Police Substation of the El Ejido district: he appeared before the uniformed officers after completing four days of “evasion and escape from their captors”reported the portal.

The police provided him with care and activated protocols to guarantee his safety. The soldier remained in custody while his transfer from Policarpa to Pasto was coordinated with the military authorities.

“Once in Pasto (a city in western Colombia), Melo Charry was transferred to a medical center, where he remains under observation and accompanied by his family,” added the Colombian newspaper.

According to a military source informed the agency AFPthe soldier is “fine” and remains under protection against possible “retaliation”. “Thanks to his military training, belonging to the French legion, he was kept alive,” said the source.

Once the doctors allow it, investigators plan to interview Melo Charry to reconstruct the circumstances in which he was deprived of his liberty, identify the members of the guerrilla who kidnapped him and establish how he managed to escape from the place.

The soldier was taken hostage on August 6 when he was traveling along a route in the department of Nariño, dominated by armed groups that finance themselves from drug trafficking, illegal mining and other crimes.

Melo Charry was traveling with a woman who was also taken hostage and released hours later. The kidnappers They never asked for money in exchange for their release.according to Colombian authorities.

The Colombian EMC guerrilla, the main dissident of the ex-FARC and led by alias Iván Mordisco, had claimed his capture a week ago.

Melo Charry is a native of the department of Nariño, but resides abroad and would have returned to Colombia, apparently, in order to visit his family and friends in Pasto and an area of ​​the Western mountain range.

The French Foreign Legion, to which he belongs, is an elite unit of that country’s Army made up mainly of volunteers from dozens of nationalities. The man was authorized to remain in French metropolitan territory, but not to travel to Colombia, according to the French Ministry of Defense.