The long struggle of a formerFarc to recover his son

After several years of having spent day and night at the service of the guerrillas, at least 10, the life of a man who was part of the then FARC is about to take a new turn in his goal of joining the civilian life.For the ex -combatant, one of the nearly 13.000 people who accepted the peace agreement, their desire is to establish a family with whom today claims as their son, from which he was away from the war.

This week, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling in its favor and gave it the possibility of finally knowing whether or not it is the young man's father, a minor born in 2004 who already expressed wanting to establish a relationship with his alleged father.Today, the young man remains under the protection of ICBF in Antioquia.

That right to form a family, however, could not be specified, because they know for sure if they carry the same blood became a legal problem of several debates that the high court had to solve.

The procedure, which at first glance would seem easy to solve by means of a DNA test, was denied after the ICBF was protected in a norm of the childhood and adolescence code.

Before the refusal, last year the man filed a guardianship that went on to review the Third Review Chamber of the Constitutional Court, which covered his request by highlighting several criteria.

Two of the most relevant is that he - and the minor - were affected his right to form a family.And he also stressed that the ICBF did not take into account that man comes from a reincorporation process to society, so it is notorious that before him he could not advance paternal recognition.

But beyond the legal, the case has a story that began years ago in this department and that, for reasons of security and intimacy, the high court reported without revealing the names of the protagonists.

The desire to meet

To the ex -combatant the court identified him as FPG, and the young man how to give.Of both it is known that after 17 years of not having been able to share any moment, they are already clear that they want to establish a family relationship.Even the man clarified that "whether or not his son wants to support and get him forward," he reads in the sentence known by the Colombian.

The one who had moved away is because FPG had, in effect, a step through the FARC, and was arrested until 2017, the year in which the agreement signed in Havana was accepted.

That time of insurgency and being away from their loved ones, added to the fact that he already had to remain for almost a year to the transitory area of normalization of Llano Grande, in Dabeiba, he was taken into account when finally protecting himthe right to know whether or not the parent of giving.

On the other side is the young man, who since 2016 was under the care of the ICBF after having violated his rights to life and a healthy environment.

The young man had run out of dad and mom, since, says the ruling, it was not known again since that year.To the maternal grandmother, who took care of him, did not give it to him because he did not meet the conditions required by the ICBF.

This is how in 2018, "after analyzing the extensive probative collection that reflected the situation of violation of rights in which it was, and the absence of biological or extensive family that had interest in taking care of it," the Family Ombudsman inAntioquia decided to declare in "Adoptability Situation," the Court described in his sentence.