“No, I didn’t do it,” were the words of Ángel del Pino Cuya when approached by the press about the call of a false bomb alarm that activated the security protocols of the Las Americas International Airport (AILA), moments before entering the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention of Santo Domingo Este.
The citizen Peruvian must comply 12 months of preventive detention in it Las Parras penitentiary centerwhen he was identified as the person responsible for the call to warn about the presence of a bomb on a plane, which turned out to be false, andwhich forced the interruption of airport operations on January 6.
The Judge Karen Minyeti declared the complex casewelcoming the request from the Public Ministry considering that there are sufficient elements to impose the most burdensome measure.
As detailed by the prosecutor Andrés Menathe alert was confirmed as false by security agencies, but caused the activation of a wide emergency operation in an infrastructure considered critical for the Dominican State.
Reactions and judicial measures adopted
“He judgefor the evidence collected In the investigation, he understood that they were sufficient in the face of a serious incident, the product of false information corroborated by security agencies. It is about serious events and it was necessary to tie the accused to the process,” said the representative of the Public Ministry.
The defense of Del Pino Cuya described as disproportionate the court’s decision to impose a year of imprisonment preventive detention and declare the complex case.
“It is a disproportionate decisionbut we continue to bet on good justice and presumption of innocence. The research can continue without such a burdensome measure,” said the defendant’s lawyer.
After the hearing, the pursuing organ bar indicated that Ángel resides in the Dominican Republic for two and a half years, after deciding to stay in the country after a vacation, and that, furthermore, worked in the airport environment.
