STRIPPED...OF LIBERTY

X-Rated Video Mistakenly Played at Ex-Colombian President’s Trial

Former Colombia president Alvaro Uribe, who is charged with bribery and procedural fraud, looked unimpressed as the whole court—including the judge—burst into laughter.

An AI-enhanced video of a scantily clad woman stripping as well as a bizarre clip of a short man dancing with a bottle of liquor were accidentally played during Colombian ex-president Alvaro Uribe‘s historic bribery trial. Prosecutor Marlene Orjuela instigated the embarrassing double blunder as she tried to pull up audio files on her laptop of conversations between two lawyers also implicated in the ongoing trial. The faux pas was caught on a livestream of the trial. Uribe, who is charged with bribery, witness tampering and procedural fraud, looked unimpressed as the whole court—including the judge—burst into laughter. “Your Honor, my apologies. We didn’t foresee that this would happen,” Orjuela said, chuckling after showing the short man dancing merrily. “My apologies, Your Honor, but, well… it’s just that…” she mumbled as the trial turned farcical after the second clip, that appeared to be from a porn site, played. It showed an AI-doctored female in a swimsuit dancing and revealing her buttocks and vagina. Uribe, who denies all charges, likely did not find the slip-up humorous as he faces 12 years in jail. The 72-year-old was president of Colombia between 2002 and 2010.