Alfonso Jacquin Gutiérrez (30 April 1953, in

Santa Marta Santa Marta (), officially Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta ("Touristic, Cultural and Historic District of Santa Marta"), is a city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. It is the capital of Magdalena ...

– 7 November 1985, in

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) was a Colombian lawyer and guerrilla fighter,''A Mí, No me Mandan Flores''
Opinión Caribe a founding member of the National Directorate of the M-19 guerrilla movement. He was killed in the

Palace of Justice siege The Palace of Justice siege was a 1985 attack on the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of the leftist M-19 guerrilla group took over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá and held the Supreme Court hostage, intending to hold a trial agains ...

. Jacquin was a constitutional lawyer in the

University of Atlántico The University of Atlántico ( es, Universidad del Atlántico), also called Uniatlántico, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university based in the city of Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia. It is the largest higher education ...

, and became professor of law in the Free University of

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. He was a brilliant orator and a close friend of Jaime Bateman and Carlos Toledo Plata. He joined the M-19 movement at the beginning of the 1980s. After a truce had been agreed in April 1984, he took part, along with

Antonio Navarro Wolff Antonio José Navarro Wolff (born 9 July 1948) is an engineer, a former combatant and a Colombian politician. Navarro used to be a former Commandant and leader of the 19th of April Movement (M-19), a former guerrilla movement that operated in C ...

, in an attack on the ''La Sabana'' tourist train between Bogotá and

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. For this action he was tried and convicted, but was pardoned by the Supreme Court of Justice. After the truce and the peace process had failed, Jacquin, together with Andrés Almarales and Luis Otero Cifuentes, was among the commanders of the "Iván Marino Ospina" company of about 40 guerrillas which stormed the Palace of Justice on 6-7 November 1985. For over 14 hours the guerrillas held captive the Supreme Court judges, including the Court president, Chief Justice Alfonso Reyes Echandía. Jacquin was killed during the recapture of the Palace by the Colombian army and police. His body has never been found.

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1953 births 1985 deaths 19th of April Movement members Academic staff of the University of Atlántico {{Colombia-bio-stub

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