He former President Alejandro Toledo He could not present his final allegations in the Oral trial for the Ecoteva case due to a physical decompensation picture occurred in the Barbadillo prison. His lawyer, Roberto Su, reported that Toledo suffered from chills, tremors and difficulties in speaking firmly, which made his intervention in audience impossible.
During the session, the lawyer commented the following before Judge Josefa Izaga: “I have found it with a slight tremor … they have taken blood pressure and was decompensated with 100 out of 60, with chills and tremors. He has difficulty holding the voice.” Given this situation, he requested that Toledo be transferred again to his cell while he remained at the audience. The magistrate accepted the request and gave Toledo a recess to stabilize.
“I request that you could be allowed that in the next session, for which I will have to coordinate. He had to receive his early medication, he has not been able to stabilize to be fine. (…) I request (also) that my sponsor goes to his cell and I stay at the audience,” he added.
When trying to intervene briefly before retiring, Toledo said: “Let me, lady magistrate, I don’t feel good.” However, the judge replied that, if he could speak, she had to present her defense; Otherwise, you should retire.
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In July 2024, the former President Alejandro Toledo presented discomfort at the middle of the public audience by the South interoceanic case and requested to be treated in a hospital because he felt “absolutely bad.” In response, the magistrates of the Second Collegiate Criminal Court asked the former president’s lawyer to coordinate with his family for the relevant actions.
“I feel absolutely bad. There is no doctor. I’m going to (intelligible). I am drowning. Please speak with Roberto, please. Even a hospital here or the clinic,” he exclaimed in the broken voice.
The lawyer of the former president,José Roberto his Rivadeneyra,He explained the health status of his defendant. “I have approached the prison. I have entered and I have found the president, trembling, with a fort on the chest. I called a nurse and had the pressure of 100 out of 70. Very low because he is hypertensive. He usually has 140 to 150. Also, he told me that he felt a tingling in his hands,” he told Channel N.
