Colombia’s president calls for criminal probe of Trump over deadly boat strikes

Colombia's president wants a criminal investigation into President Trump and his administration's officials over this month's lethal military strikes on boats the White House claims were operated by drug traffickers

The Colombian leader condemned the three deadly attacks in his address in Spanish to the U.N. General Assembly

Here's his words as translated by Reuters, as he refutes the Trump administration's claims that some targeted in the strikes were members of Trendy Aragua

The young people killed by missiles in the Caribbean did not belong to the Trendy Aragua

Perhaps nobody here even knows their names. Nor to Hamas. They were from the Caribbean, possibly Colombians

And if they were Colombians, with apologies to those who dominate the United Nations

criminal proceedings should be opened against those U.S. officials responsible, including the top official who gave the order, President Trump

Details on the deadly boat strikes are scarce. The Trump administration says the first strike occurred on September 2 and killed 11 people That boat had left Venezuela and the White House asserts those targeted were members of Trendeo Agua In a second strike in

mid-September, another boat leaving Venezuela was hit by a U.S. military strike, killing three

The Trump administration says the vessel was part of a drug trafficking operation

The most recent boat was struck Friday and killed three people. Trump said in a True Social post

the strike targeted a vessel affiliated with a designated terrorist organization trafficking illicit narcotics. Dominican authorities say the speedboat was headed

toward their country when it was struck and had allegedly intended to smuggle cocaine

aboard the vessel into the U.S. Democrats and some Republicans have raised concerns about the

legality of striking vessels in international water, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

says he's preparing in case of a U.S. attack on his nation. Maduro accuses the U.S. of using the

military actions as a prelude to overthrowing his government. For more on this story

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