Colombia's last remaining rebel group have been named as those responsible for kidnapping Luis Diaz's father on Saturday night. Luis Manuel Díaz, the father of the Liverpool forward, has been missing for five days since he was kidnapped, and on Thursday, Colombian government officials said that theNational Liberation Army of Colombia were responsible for the abduction that has gained worldwide media attention and resulted in Liverpool's No.7 missing their last two matches.
This afternoon, a press release signed by the leader of the Colombian government's Peace Delegation negotiation team, Otty Patino, read: “Today we have had official knowledge that the kidnapping perpetrated last October 28, in Barrancas, department of La Guajira, of which Luis Manuel Diaz and Cilenis Marulanda, father and mother of the soccer player Luis Fernando Diaz Marulanda, were victims, was perpetrated by a unit belonging to the ELN. Although Mrs.