The general director of Citizen Coexistence of the Ministry of the Interior, Santiago González, questioned the handling of the information after the leak of some of the chats of the former presidential custodian Alejandro Astesiano: “It ends up being WhatsApp jokes, every day with a different headline, let’s see what he said, if he ate French fries and that is not serious because we are talking about the safety of the president and his family“He assured this Wednesday at a press conference.
“I think the prosecution has the full support of the Executive Power. If you can formalize a person for influence peddling, I congratulate you, because so far there is absolutely nothing“He said, addressing a journalist. “If justice is working because we want to close the chapter on who is to blame. We are at a supersonic speed of Twitter. They put our names with a levity and telephones. It is immoral and they leave us exposed“, said.
“I understand that there is a certain sector of the opposition to reach the government in any way. We can make mistakes but not intervene in the Prosecutor’s Office,” he said.
González referred to the statements made this Wednesday by the lawyer for number three of the Police, Jorge Berriel. Larranaga told at the beginning of this administration to Berriel, that “everything that Astesiano asked for was as if the minister himself had asked for it.” González assured that the request made by the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Larrañaga, was “correct.” “Who are you going to call if there’s a suspicious car? The coronary unit?” he wondered.
The lawyer clarified that in that conversation, where Larrañaga introduced the then presidential custodian to Berrielthe former director general of the Secretariat of the Ministry of the Interior, Luis Calabria, was a witness.
The Observer He contacted Calabria, who said that “at the end of March or April (2020) the person who was going to be in that role of presidential security was presented and that it was indicated that he should be given the due collaboration to fulfill that role.”
The deputy executive director of the National Police was holding conversations via WhatsApp with the former chief of custodians, according to the leaked chats.
