As explained by the president of the Court of Higher Risk C, the measure is part of the pre-trial process against him and will last while he elucidates his legal situation.
“I was expecting it,” said Xitumul, who received the news in the middle of a hearing, and assured that he continues to show off his quality as a judge.
In the opinion of the togado, there is no defined term to remove him from the post because it depends on the time of the criminal process, and he described as false that they have dismissed him.
Currently, Xitumul was at the forefront of the oral and public debate of 24 involved in the case known as 22R, which involves an alleged criminal structure dedicated to vehicle theft.
With the decision of this Tuesday, the trial was interrupted and it could be resumed when the Court is reintegrated or start from scratch, possibly in 2024, he warned.
According to the spokesman for the Judicial Organism, Fredy Calderón, the separation of the jurisdictional function occurs to guarantee the effective exercise of the defense by Xitumul.
Last February, he confirmed to the alternative media Prensa Comunitaria that the measure against him is part of a regression strategy.
“The people of Guatemala need effective justice and not underhanded or biased, as some groups claim by co-opting and taking over State institutions,” he considered.
It is a message “to honest judges and prosecutors” that says: “this is going to happen to you if you swim against the current,” he argued then.
According to what he told the digital newspaper, the events used to build this case against him occurred in February 2019, when he was the victim of aggression and intimidation by the deputy inspector of the National Civil Police José Cuxaj, at kilometer 20 of Ciudad Quetzal, Mixco.
Xitumul was in charge of the genocide trial against General Efraín Ríos Montt, the prosecution of five soldiers for the disappearance of Marco Antonio Molina Theissen, the Dos Erres case and the so-called Agua Mágica, in which he convicted former Vice President Roxana Baldetti for corruption. .
This Tuesday’s news precedes the exile, yesterday, of the until then Judge of Higher Risk D, Erika Aifán, for endangering her life due to threats and an ongoing trial process to strip her of immunity and send her to prison as part of the strategy of criminalization against independent judges, analysts recalled here.
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