Castillo’s lawyer on Yenifer Paredes: “she is not escaping, she is preserving her freedom”

President Pedro Castillo’s lawyer, benji espinozajustified that the president’s sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredesremains a fugitive from justice for not having turned himself in despite having a preliminary arrest warrant against him approved by the Judiciary.

“As a lawyer, I can tell you clearly, I believe that people have the right to resist arrest warrants that are not well motivated”assured before the press on Thursday night, while a search proceeding was being carried out at the residence of the Government Palace.

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“If a person refuses to surrender while it is being decided whether his detention is right or not, he is not escaping or escaping. What he is doing is preserving his freedom and questioning and censoring the decision that emanates in the first instance, it is not in the final instance”Spinoza added.

The legal defender of Pedro Castillo and his wife, Lilia Paredes, denied being a lawyer for Yenifer Paredes but participated in the diligence that was delayed in starting at the Government Palace due to the absence of a representative of the president.

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“Not only was Yenifer not there, but no garment of hers was found. No element of her, no belongings of Yenifer Paredes “accurate.

For this reason, the lawyer described the measure as “unprecedented and unusual”as well as “disproportionate, unreasonable and illegal”.

“That is why within three days, we are going to do it as quickly as possible, we are going to file and substantiate an appeal so that it is a criminal appeals chamber that can revoke or annul the decision of the judge who granted the break-in”Spinoza explained.

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