This Tuesday, Julio Lt, 20, was admitted to the San Pedro prison, La Paz, after being transferred from the Beniano municipality of Rurrenabaque after being accused of killing the indigenous Leco Francisco Marupa, 67.
It was a precautionary judge who ordered that July remain arrested for five months in San Pedro, because he was declared likely author of Francisco’s murder marups at a precautionary hearing that was held in Beni.
“Police personnel have transferred this person to the San Pedro prison. The judge, within the hearing of precautionary measures, has determined five months of preventive detention, ”said the departmental commander of the La Paz Police, Gunther Agudo.
The leader and Actolo Indigenous Central activist of Apollo (CPILAP), 67, was violently killed in the Torewa community, in Madidi, north of La Paz.
After being captured, Julio Lt supposedly declared the police to send him to kill Francisco Marupa, who He was a defender of Madidi Park and protested by mining illegal in the river.
However, police investigations determined that the arrested entered to steal the property of Francisco Marupa Two weeks ago and had an altercation for this fact.
“Different research acts have been carried out, this fact I would have been born by a mishap that the deceased would have had, Initially, two weeks ago, where the union would have entered the home (Marupa) to steal some species, ”said acute.
The first inquiries report that the death of Marupa occurred on Tuesday, February 11, After a fight with his alleged murderer, who was surprised by stealing in their banana plantations; However, the lifeless body of the indigenous activist was found only on Friday, February 14.
For the citizen community senator, Cecilia Requena, the new hypothesis that police gave about the mobile of the murder of the indigenous leader “It generated more doubts than certainty”so he asks for an objective investigation to clarify the crime. He did so in statements with Paceños media.
Requena also asked to respect the human rights of Julio LT, the main accused of this murder, noting that It is an indigenous Tsimané who does not speak Spanish and that he cannot defend himself if they do not get a translator to help him communicate with his lawyer.
On this issue, the National Coordinator of Defense of Indigenous Territories peasant native and Protected Areas (Contiocap) issued a statement in which it demands, among several points, the thorough investigation of the death of Marupa.
Also in one of the sections, in relation to Julio, who is also indigenous and belongs to the Tsimane people, he said the following:
“Then, the alleged confession about murder that the young indigenous Tsimane would have committed, who barely speaks the Spanish/Spanish language, and perhaps does not understand the magnitude of what he declared or what he is accused ofIn addition, the presence of his defense lawyer is not known during his statement, therefore there are no guarantees that their statements have developed without pressure or coercion; This added that these statements do not coincide with the versions presented in the media and social networks, of Use of sharp firearms and short, with the declaration of the supposed traditional weapon (traditional arrow) That according to him he would have used, and they also do not coincide with versions of members of the Torewa Campesina community, who on Saturday, February 15, being also syndicated as suspicious assumptions, have come to the Police to present information on chronological facts of the activities of the activities of the alleged suspicious, as well as other members in the community, and ask that the Authorities clarify and identify the true responsible, as well as the mobile phones of possible theftaccording to family versions, which would have triggered this violent fact. In this context, we demand the legality and responsibility of the investigation and the process is not contaminated, our Political Constitution of the current State, in art. 120.II, guarantees that each person If necessary, it can be assisted by a translator or interpreter And in addition the judgment of the Plurinational Constitutional Court 0224/2012, establishes that the declaration of the accused containing a confession of the crime obtained without the presence of his defense lawyer violates his rights to the technical defense no longer declare against himself. “
