When leading this Thursday the commemorative acts of the National Day of the Public Ministrythe Attorney General of the Republic, Magistrate Miriam Germán Brito, proposed to rescue the imperishable legacy of the patrician Francisco del Rosario Sanchez, of honesty, temperance and commitment to an ideal.
“We must not as a society, and especially as a justice system, allow ourselves that his example has been in vain,” he proclaimed.
Judge Germán Brito gave a speech at the altar of the homelandwhere he presided over an act of hoisting the flag and the deposit of a floral offering on the occasion of the commemoration that takes place every March 9, the day on which the birth of the patrician Francisco del Rosario Sánchez is celebrated, who was a prosecutor before the Court of Appeal of Santo Domingo.
“The Public Ministry, as I highlighted last Tuesday in our accountability, is the main actor in the criminal process and has a role that is recognized and valued today. This recognition is only sustained, however, on the basis of an honest and impartial action that demonstrates objectivity in the direction of criminal proceedings, ”he stressed.
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He stated that, at present, they are under constant pressure from the media to resolve the cases in progress. “Let’s understand that it is a cry that responds to the high levels of accumulated frustration resulting from the impunity that has prevailed for years,” she said.
He maintained that: “society wants to see justice, it wants to feel protected by the actors of the system when their most fundamental collective rights are violated, and we must not disappoint. Now, that this desire for justice does not divert us from the path of legal truth.
Judge Germán Brito said that upon assuming her mandate, she proposed to restore confidence in the Public Ministry, raise its institutional morale, while expressing: “the mistakes of the past have made a dent in the prestige that, by its nature, the body possesses state prosecutor. But not everything is negative, we have many victories to celebrate. So let’s highlight them and celebrate them with enthusiasm”.
Protected by the memory of the patrician, he said he appealed to the vocation of service for justice and called to redirect the institution to the stage that the Constitution has conferred. “In this sense, I take this opportunity to recognize and applaud each of the prosecutors that make up the body of the Public Ministry, for staying on the front lines, fighting not only crime, but also its detractors,” he said.
The highest authority of the Public Ministry concluded his speech on the spot with the thought of Sánchez’s ideology: “Keep in mind that your exercise is not exclusive to the prosecution, but also for acquittal because you are not the executioner of the Law, but the patron of justice and good customs. All of you who exclusively make up the Tribunal keep in mind that without temperance there is no justice”.
In the act, which was attended by members of the Public Ministry and various personalities, the president of the Permanent Commission of National Ephemerides, Juan Pablo Uribe, also gave a speech, who called for defending nationality.
Uribe stated: “with the feeling and conviction of the fighting Dominicans, the resistant Dominicans, the Dominicans always, we remember the birth of Francisco del Rosario Sánchez on a day like today, March 9, 1817,” while noting that with the act The “Month of the Homeland 2023” successfully concludes, a period that was filled with civic, school and patriotic activities throughout the country.
He highlighted the specific need for a galvanized collective action, “above sectarian or petty interests, that supports the supreme interest of the homeland: its nationality and its material and spiritual development in peace and social justice for the Dominican people.”
The Superior Council of the Public Ministry (CSMP), chaired by Judge Miriam Germán Brito, determined in 2021 to declare March 9 of each year as national day of Ministry Public in honor of the patrician Francisco del Rosario Sánchez.
