Pablo Escobar’s son says his dad’s death was by suicide

PABLO Escobar’s son said his dad committed suicide, but the drug kingpin’s death was were covered up by Colombian authorities.

Pablo Escobar’s son said his dad’s death was by suicide. Picture: News Corp. Picture: Supplied.

PABLO Escobar’s son says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities. Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says.

Juan Pablo Escobar says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities. Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says.

Pablo Escobar contributed to the building of more than 800 soccer fields. This photo was taken at the dedication of a field in La Paz. Picture: Supplied.

“My father always told me that he had 15 bullets in his pistol; 14 were for his enemies and the last one for him,” he says.

The world never knew of this suicidal last stand on December 3, 1993 because the coroner was ordered not to contradict the official version of events — that heroic Colombian forces cut down the world’s mightiest cocaine trafficker, Escobar tells the New York Post.

Pablo Escobar in his mugshot. Picture: Supplied.

“It’s not a theory,” Escobar insists. “Forensic investigators who performed the autopsy told us it was suicide but that they were threatened by the authorities not to disclose the truth in their final report.”

Escobar, the Medellin cartel chief’s only son, was 17 when his father died. He is now a 39-year-old architect living in Argentina.

This story was first published in the New York Post.