He agent who offered datas to intervene the telephone numbers of students and teachers of the Liceo 41 to former presidential trustee Alexander Astesiano it was already identified by the police and his real name is Marcelo Franquez.
“Already was interrogatedhear your statements have already been sent to the Prosecutor Fossati”, said a police source linked to the case.
The source did not want to say what Franquez, who is a corporal, declared, although he recalled that a judge’s order is needed to tap a telephone.
In the bulletin of daily orders of the Ministry of the Interior for today, Wednesday, it is indicated that “by ministerial resolution” of February 6, Franquez stopped “providing services on commission in the Presidential Security Service” and returns to work at the Montevideo Police Headquarters, “reintegrating to their unit of origin”. “By order of the command of this Headquarters, the aforementioned official will serve at the Headquarters of Operational Zone 1 – Section 5th.”
For his part, Frank He did not reply to messages sent to him.
Until now the real name of the policeman was not known, who in the chats reported by La Diaria was mentioned as Marcelo Baiano, the name with which the presidential custodian had scheduled him.
Baiano/Franquez was a “Astesian’s subordinate”added the source.
La Diaria published the content of a chat in which this agent told the custodian of his concerns about the left-wing militancy of the students of Liceo 41, in Cerrito de la Victoria.
“You can see that they are using those guachos who live in the cantes and are half brainless. Forgive me the expression, but that’s the way it is”, Franquez points out in the chat. “Are you interested?” he asks Astesiano. “If you’re interested, I have phone numbers, I have everything, so you can intervene in everything and have a broader picture of it,” Franquez proposes to Astesiano.
“Yes, of course,” was Astesiano’s response. Then, according to the chat published by La Diaria, the presidential custodian confirmed his interest in an audio: “Yes, Marcelo. I give the urgent order”.
Franquez then shared the name and phone number of a teacher and “union delegate” from Liceo 41. Then she provided the name of another teacher and then the first names and cell phone numbers of 12 students.
“Okay. Good,” Astesiano replied.
After the disclosure of this audio, several social and political actors expressed their concern.
The Executive Secretariat of the Pit-Cnt resolved pedir a meeting with the authorities of the Codicen to “ask them for a pronouncement”.
The union authorities also claim to be received by the Institute for Children and Adolescents (INAU), the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and the Court Prosecutor.
“This espionage has been demonstrated after these audios,” said the vice president of the union, Joselo Lopez. “It is a very complex situation that compromises the quality of democracy in our country,” he added. “The audios are clear and forceful.”
The president of the Codicen, Robert Silva, Silva, for his part, stressed that it is not yet known if the intervention of the telephones of teachers and students was completed. But he pointed out that “if it has materialized, it is obviously an absolutely reprehensible fact, where the Justice is intervening, investigating, and will develop the corresponding actions.”
The episode adds to those that the prosecutor Gabriela Fossati must now elucidate.
