September 2, 2024, 12:22 PM
September 2, 2024, 12:22 PM
The start of the trial against former president Jeanine Áñez, her former ministers Arturo Murillo, Fernando López and 15 other peoplefor the Senkata case, “has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 4, at 9:30 a.m.“, reported the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima.
The start of this trial for the deaths that occurred in Senkata during the 2019 crisis was scheduled for this Monday, September 2, and Minister Lima now “hopes that the process will be established and justice will repair the damage caused to the victims and their families.”
“The pain and suffering of these people cannot go unpunished,” Lima added on social media X.
In another text published on the same platform, she indicated that the victims “are patiently waiting for their cases to be heard and the guilty to be punished.”
“Helping the victims of Senkata find justice should be everyone’s job” Bolivians“, he said.
However, the former president Áñez described the new trial as a new “show” and “circus” against him.
“Now, Today, the next show begins: Two illegal and simultaneous oral trials against me. Two more lies against a former president kidnapped and detained for 1,267 days. Whatever they do, the circus is no longer enough to distract a people. convinced that they are the worst thing that could have happened to Bolivia,” the former president stated through her social networks.
Áñez is currently being held in the Miraflores prison in the city of La Paz, and has already been sentenced for one of the proceedings opened due to the alleged “coup” in 2019.
The new trial “It is for the serious crime of genocide of the Senkata massacre (where there were) 10 dead (…) and we are going to ask, both during the initial arguments and also during the final arguments, for the imposition of the maximum penalty of 30 years in prison“said the state’s attorney general, César Siles, on Sunday.
