the murders of galan , a high - ranking police officer , and a deputy last week , were probably carried out by an indian mercenary recruited by the medellin syndicate - the city ' s most notorious narcotics - trafficking mafia - which has sprung up paramilitary squads charges of hundreds of individually murdered and massacres against party and labor leaders , as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist fighters in several parts of the country .
Galan was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.