The Office of Permanent Attention of Santo Domingo Este will know this Thursday morning the hearing of measure of coercion against Ángel del Pino Cuya, a Peruvian citizen accused of making a false bomb threat that activated the security protocols of the Las Américas International Airport (AILA) on January 6.
He Public Ministry requests 12 months of preventive detention against the accused, by maintaining that his warning forced the return of the aircraft and the application of preventive measures that resulted in the temporary interruption of the country’s airport operations.
The hearing is scheduled for 9:00 a.m.where the accused must be held accountable for violation of articles 3, paragraph 1, letter e; 63 and 78 of the Law 188-11 on Airport and Civil Aviation Security.
This typifies the acts of unlawful interference and the communication of false information that compromises the security of an aircraft in flight, punished with penalties of 3 to 10 years of prison. In addition, he could face up to 40 years in prison for violating articles 11 and 30 of the Law 267-08 on Terrorism.
false identity
Presenting himself as a restaurant manager and falsely identifying himself on a call as “Ricardo Casas“Coming from France, he assured that the information had reached him minutes before the ship left, and that it would take him 35 minutes to travel to notify him in person after reporting the presence of an explosive in the ship. flight CM-299 from Copa Airlines.
Although I didn’t travel on the flight, Del Pino Cuya assured during the call, made from a iPhone 12that a person on board with schizophrenia represented a risk, information that he said he had received from a close friend WhatsAppas detailed in the investigation
He Public Ministry recalled that this type of behavior transcends the generation of public alarm, by directly affecting a critical infrastructure and its impact on the security of the airport system, so the case is addressed with the corresponding rigor within the framework of the national security.
