The Colombian president Iván Duque (2018-2022) proposed on Saturday a guardianship action (Amparo resource) that is supported by millions of people to allow former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) to remain free while his case is closed, after being sentenced to twelve years in prison.
“A guardianship action with the support of millions of Colombians is necessary and urgent, because, based on jurisprudence and the presumption of innocence, defense in freedom must operate until all the resources available in a case like this are exhausted“Duque said in his X. Uribe account, 73 and founder of the right -wing party Democratic Center, for which he was elected Duke as Senator and President, He was sentenced yesterday in the considered ‘trial of the century’ in Colombia by Judge Sandra Herediawhich found him guilty in the first instance of the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action.
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Heredia, head of the 44th Criminal Court of the Circuit of Bogotá, issued the penalty of 12 years in jail against Uribe that may pay at home, a fine of more than 3,400 million Colombian pesos and also disabled it for more than eight years for the exercise of public functions.
The judge also ordered the immediate detention of Uribe, a measure considered disproportionate by supporters of the former president and by many jurists, because the ruling will still be appealed before the Superior Court of Bogotá, which must be pronounced in the second instance at the latest next October.
“The presumption of innocence, the judicious appearance of every call of justice, the rigor of its defense and the demonstration of the chain of procedural irregularities, added to the request for exemption of the Public Ministry and its appeal to the ruling, as well as the absence of a single test that validates a condition of determinant, they are sufficient for Álvaro Uribe“Duke added.
Duke, who won the presidency in 2018 thanks to Uribe’s support, added: “Colombians know that Uribe is innocent; He has demonstrated it and must continue to demonstrate in freedom“. In an argument that gave yesterday after reading the sentence, Uribe claimed the judge to denied him.”The right to remain free“. Uribe criticized the judge’s action not only for the hardness of the sentence but because there is no evidence to condemn him in this process that faces the left senator Iván Cepeda, Cepeda,
EFE.
