Khaberni - Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Friday the killing of a drug dealer in Mexico linked to the assassination of soccer player Andres Escobar after the 1994 World Cup.
President Gustavo Petro said that the assassination of the player, who was "had destroyed the country's international image".
A source in the Toluca prosecutor's office reported that Santiago Gavion was shot inside a restaurant in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.
The Drug Dealer Was Behind Escobar's Assassination
The name Santiago Gavion Henao appeared in the investigation around the killing of the Colombian national team defender ten days after he accidentally scored an own goal which contributed to Colombia’s first-round exit from the World Cup held in the United States.
It is believed that Santiago Gavion Henao and his brother Pedro David got into a fight with Escobar and insulted him the night he was killed on the second of July 1994, inside a nightclub in Medellin which was then under the control of drug traffickers.
The brothers’ driver, Humberto Munoz Castro, confessed to shooting Escobar several times in the nightclub parking lot.
According to several accounts, the murderer was screaming "goal" with every shot.
Some theories suggest that drug dealers incurred significant losses after betting on the outcomes for the Colombian team during the 1994 World Cup.
According to this source who preferred to remain anonymous, the Gavion family insists he was a livestock breeder and was supposed to meet with other breeders on the day of the assassination.
Santiago and Pedro David Gavion were put on the U.S. Treasury Department’s blacklist in 2015 on charges of drug trafficking and were accused of belonging to "La Oficina de Envigado", the successor organization to the Medellin cartel led by Pablo Escobar.
