José Jerí: "The only common enemy is the criminal who is in prison and those who want to enter through our borders."

The president of the republic, José Jeríparticipated in the signing of the inter-institutional agreement between the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General’s Office, which will allow the Public Ministry access the prison database, managed by a company.

President of Congress announced yesterday that he will go to the electoral headquarters accompanied by his lawyer.

It should be noted that no personal data will be provided, but rather refined information for strategic analysis against criminal networks that operate from prisons.

The president assured that “10 years have had to pass for a government to make firm decisions in the fight against crime.” In that sense, he indicated that information on crime in prisons was always available, but there were governments that did not want to use it.

“Use that information that, for many years, has been accumulating in databases, hard drives, in the cloud. It was even on a USB where the origin of the crime was. All of the planning, or a large part of it, has been created from the prisons. All that information has always been there,” he indicated.

The head of state assured that “it has always been known that, unfortunately, our prisons are a source where crimes are planned abroad,” but questioned that “no one gave it adequate importance.”

“That is why we are at war against crime. And in a war there will always be movements on one side and another; an action generates a reaction,” he stated.

Highlights inter-institutional collaboration

Jerí highlighted that the agreement signed in the presence of the Minister of Justice, Walter Martínez, and the nation’s prosecutor, Tomás Gálvez, is a “new episode of collaboration between institutions.”

“We will continue to open the door to collaborate with other institutions in this only war that we have to win right now,” he said.

Likewise, the president assured that the “only common enemy is the criminal”: “Those who are in prison and those who want to enter through our borders, who are still weak,” he emphasized.

Finally, the president announced that in the coming days measures of a similar nature to that of the signed agreement will be announced, so that “they allow us to articulate in a much more collective way to confront crime.”

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