President Gustavo Petro attacked those who, from social networks and media sectors, have questioned the identity of the minor who appears in a video with the first lady, Verónica Alcocer, in Stockholm, Sweden.
The president described as “perfidious” to insinuate that the young woman is not his daughter Antonella and denounced the existence of persecution that, according to him, is reaching even minors.
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Through his social networks, the head of state responded firmly to accusations that suggest that the minor seen in the images was not his daughter.
In his message he wrote: “To question that the one in the photo is not my youngest daughter, Antonella, who I sent so she could see her mother, is simply perfidious. I do not believe that Swedish laws allow this persecution against minors, much less Colombian laws.”.
The president reiterated that both Swedish and Colombian regulations protect children and warned that these insinuations, in addition to being unfounded, put his daughter’s integrity at risk.
Petro’s statement arose after Luz María Sierra, director of The Colombianpublished a message on his X account questioning the identity of the minor who appears in the video recorded by Swedish journalists.
Sierra wrote: “Could it be that Verónica Alcocer is with her daughter? Or is she a friend?” Because well… she looks like her daughter (later in the video he hugs her from behind). The information is important to see if Petro lied to the country again, and played the victim, with the drama that his family could not be reunited.”
The publication sparked widespread debate about the limits of public scrutiny and the protection of minors amid political controversies.
Added to this exchange was the comment of an X user, who denounced what she described as “sick media harassment” against the presidential family. Petro reacted to said message with a “like”.
The user stated: “What happened with Luz María Sierra already crosses any limit. Turning the President’s family into the target of sickening media harassment is not journalism: it is persecution.”
The discussion occurred after a journalist from the Swedish newspaper express released images in which the first lady Verónica Alcocer is seen leaving a building in Stockholm accompanied by the Catalan Manuel Grau and a minor who would be Antonella.
The recording appears in the midst of the controversy surrounding Alcocer, after Petro stated that his wife remains “locked up” in Sweden because her name appears on the Clinton List, which according to the president prevents her from traveling.
The images showed Alcocer leaving what some mistakenly pointed out as a luxury store, a version that the president denied. Petro assured that the building corresponds to the place where his daughter Antonella, recently arrived from Bogotá, stays.
The president deepened his complaint and indicated that his daughter had been monitored since her departure from Colombia:
“My daughter, who is a minor, was followed from Colombia along her itinerary. At the airport where she arrived, they began to follow her to where her mother lives.”
He added that the images do not correspond to a shopping trip, but to the place where the minor is temporarily staying. “In the videos that the Swedish journalists recorded, my minor daughter appears. They were not leaving a luxury store, they were leaving where my youngest daughter who has just arrived from Bogotá is staying”accurate.
The head of state concluded by warning about what he considers a campaign of harassment:
“This is how the persecution of my family goes, even of minors in a democratic country.”
As the controversy continues to escalate, the debate now revolves around the limits of journalism, the privacy of public leaders’ children, and the impact these confrontations can have in a highly polarized political context in Colombia.
