The court considered that the congressman promoted acts that caused damage to the president and members of the M-19.
Representative to the Chamber, Miguel Polo Polo.
The Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court He accused the representative of the Miguel Polo Chamber for the crime of aggravated harassment.
The Chamber considered that it promoted and instigated acts aimed at causing damage to former members of the M-19 movement and President Gustavo Petro, for reasons of discrimination of political ideology. The Court determined that the parliamentarian would have used media to Disseminate messages urging to eliminate these people.
The opposition politician to the government is one step away from facing a trial before the High Court, since his defense can appeal the decision, but if the accusation is firm, The case would be transferred to the first instance room, which would have the responsibility of determining whether Pole Polo is guilty or not of the crime against President Petro and the ex-combatants of the M-19.
The investigation against Polo Polo began in July last year, when the Court decided to open the file due to publication publications of the congressman.
In one of these, made in April 2024, Polo Polo referred to the M-19 as “terrorist excrement that must be remembered as a bloodthirsty pest whose members were the worst because the society of society”
On that occasion, the congressman described the former guerrillas of that organization as “resentful and psychopaths who rose in arms to kill and kidnap Colombians with the excuse of social justice, but who, even when they are clothed under a political struggle, will be remembered like what they are; Killer criminals. ”
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Given the opening of the investigation, Polo Polo said it was Victim of a political persecution and said that the country is witnessing a strategy with which the judicial system and its team seek to saturate.
“They won’t intimidate me! Colombia is witnessing that I am the victim of the largest judicial persecution towards a congressman. The strategy of the left is clear, saturate the judicial system and saturate my team, what they do not know is that on my side we are always ready to fight and defend the truth, ”said the congressman.
The judicial process will continue its course and, depending on the result of the defense appeal, Polo Polo could face trial in the Supreme Court.
Source: Integrated information system
