The Prosecutor’s Office, controlled by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, will present this coming Monday, June 27, before the District Court Specialized in Violence of Granada a extension of tests against the priest Manuel Salvador García Rodríguez, who was recently sentenced to two years in prison for the alleged crime of threatening five people with a weapon.
Despite the fact that the alleged victim of “violence”, Martha Candelaria Rivas Hernandez, He retracted the accusation he made before the official media against the priest García Rodríguez, the justice of the Ortega regime keeps the case open for him, accusing him of the crime of aggression.
According to information from THE PRESSthe new judge in the case, Ana Fonseca Laguna, accepted that the Prosecutor present more evidence against the religious and scheduled the start of the trial for this first of July.
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The accusation and sentence against Father Manuel García was based on a video from May 30 released on social networks where the priest came out with a machete, allegedly threatening a group of people who were besieging the Jesús Nazareno parish in Nandaime, after accusing to the religious for having attacked Martha Candelaria Rivas Hernandez, She was arrested by the Ortega Police for the alleged crime of “false testimony.”
It is unknown what the “new evidence” that the Prosecutor’s Office has in its possession against the priest, with which they intend to extend his prison sentence.
Father Manuel García was arrested on June 1, being the first priest to be kept behind bars by the Ortega dictatorship, accusing him of common crimes. The priest joins more than 190 political prisoners in Nicaragua.
Article 66 He has tried to communicate with leaders of Granada with Monsignor Jorge Solórzano Pérez, bishop of the Diocese of Granada, and with Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, but they have not answered the phone calls to find out their reactions to this situation.
