The Minister of the Interior, Louis Albert Heberpointed out that he does not share the failed of appeals court this Thursday where one of the police officers who persecuted the young man is convicted of manslaughter Santiago Cor in Duraznoin August 2020.
However, the minister assures that accept the ruling. “We accept the judgment of the Court of Appeals on the tragic case (of) Cor in Durazno, but we do not share it. The law of police procedure supports the actions of these police officers”he wrote on Twitter this Thursday night.
He added: “I am the one who demands (that) they act with determination and commitment. Within the law everything, outside of it nothing”hill.
Cor was being chased by two policemen when he crashed into a tree and died. The troops wanted to arrest Cor for having a thundering pipe.
In the first instance, the Justice had acquitted both officers, but this Thursday the Court of Appeals sentenced one of them with manslaughter, to the sentence of 18 months in prison that he will serve on probation. The Observer reported this Thursday that the police union Sifpom file an appeal before the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) that will seek to review the recent ruling.
At the beginning of March of this year, the last week of hearings in the case took place and sparked controversy over the alleged police abuses that coincided with the last stretch of the campaign for the referendum of the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC). Heber then traveled to Durazno to, together with leaders of the police union, show their support for the police officers accused of the crime.
