The ex -president warns that there is no evidence that justifies the conviction against him.
Press conference of former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez where he talks about his judicial case and the meeting of the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights – IACHR with the Democratic Center Party.
Former president Álvaro Uribe appealed the 12 -year -old domiciliary prison sentence issued against him and in a long intervention he justified the reasons why he considers that it was a political decision.
According to Uribe, the judicial process against him intended to “destroy a voice of the democratic opposition.” He also defended his children Tomás and Jerónimo, after being mentioned by the judge during the hearing. “Neither my lady nor my children have had a single disrespectful comment against Mrs. Judge, nor me,” he said.
“My children are critical of the government and that justice is used to do politics (…) say that my family is missing Gallardía is a very serious accusation, especially when the same judge has said that it must be protected that this derives in violence, that is a signal to proceed violently against my children,” held.
Loading …
Also read: Tomás Uribe, son of Álvaro Uribe, questions authorship against his father
He also said that the 12 -year ruling issued against him for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action, It was “a sentence of more than a thousand pages, but turned into a political speech, simply to support a conviction. ”
He questioned that the judge has argued that he could not free him for the possibility of leaving the country, after his international recognition.
“One of the reasons for denying me to continue free, it has been that you want to avoid violence that I have to oppose vertically, That denotes the political bias of this judgment, My colleagues and I do politics with ideas, frankness, but without violence, ”he said.
“The ruling assumes that the witness Monsalve tells the truth, that is serious, it is an unacceptable assumption,” Álvaro Uribe indicated, who also warns that there is not a single evidence that supports the statement in the failure that he determined Diego Cadena to negotiate with Monsalve so that he lied.
Former President Uribe ensures that there is no reason for his conviction, he is based on the fact that he ordered witnesses to witnesses, since they were made autonomously by the lawyer Diego Cadena
“There is no legal reason to condemn me about the argument that I would have authorized doctor chain payments to witnesses, those payments were made autonomously,” he said.
“This is a ruling that abuses, it is a ruling that exceeds the legal, which goes against legal norms, against ethics, against morals,” The leader of the Democratic Center insisted.
Uribe said there is no evidence that he allegedly looked for witnesses to accuse Senator Iván Cepeda. “There is not a single test that supports, for this political ruling that condemns me, that I took the initiative to look for witnesses, I ordered to verify. There is no proof that supports that I paid those witnesses, that I asked those witnesses who had to accuse Cepeda or another person, ”he said.
Warned that “This is a ruling with close political determinants against those who attack against Colombian democracy.”
But not only that, the ex -president confirmed that from wherever he is, he will continue to defend democracy and fight against those who want to impose communism in Colombia.
“While God keeps my health and energy and despite the years, I will not cease a day to fight for our democracy, From anywhere. They are calm who share these ideas and are uneasy who want to impose communist autocracy in Colombia, ”he said.
It may interest you: Democratic Center says that condemns against Uribe has political purposes: we will defend his innocence
Warned that “This ruling is full of violations of the constitutionality block, In a country of freedoms that protects us all Colombians, ”after severely questioning the“ praise ”that, according to him, brings the sentence to Senator Iván Cepeda and the ex -paramilitary Juan Guillermo Monsalve.
“It cares about the narrative of putting bandits as the heroes and who have faced them like the villains. The ruling brought a narrative to defend bandits and accuse me of a bandit, ”he insisted.
Former President Uribe questioned that the judge has not released it while the appeal is resolved in the second instance. “The ruling arbitrarily denies me the possibility of being released while the Court resolves the appeal, they accuse me of dilatory manobras, when it has always acted in accordance with the legal norms (…) My loyalty was unknown with this trial, “he said.
The Democratic Center will undertake a strategy to defend the innocence of former president Álvaro Uribe and convened a march for August 7 with the set of supporting its leader.
Source: Integrated information system
