Along with this, Xavier Armendáriz ruled out providing new information about the investigation, which is under reserve by the Seventh Guarantee Court.
Xavier Armendariz, regional prosecutor of the North Central Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office, made clear his support for the work of the Sexual Crimes Investigative Brigade (Brisex) of the PDI, in the case he is carrying out for the rape complaint against Manuel Monsalve.
“The investigation is being carried out with the Investigative Police. The Sexual Crimes Brigade has our trust and there is no reason to change police“said the prosecutor at the Justice Center.
Along with it, Xavier Armendáriz ruled out providing new information about the investigation, which is under reserve by the Seventh Guarantee Court, emphasizing that “the content of the investigation is no longer discussed. I have it prohibited by law.”
Along these lines, he avoided referring to a possible formalization of Manuel Monsalve and had words for the precautionary hearing of guarantees, detailing that “if requesting a formalization hearing for you is not the content of the investigation, we disagree.”
“I’m going to try to clarify, because perhaps little is understood about this. When there is a guarantee precaution hearing, the prosecutor has to appear in front of the judge and answer the questions that he, the magistrate, asks in order to resolve the guarantee guarantee hearing. In this framework, the necessary information is given to the magistrate so that he can resolve. Therefore, that is why we talk about the content of the research within the audience. Once the hearing is over, the general principle governs. “You cannot comment on an ongoing investigation,” he told the press outside the Justice Center.
This article reports on an ongoing judicial process, so people identified as detained or charged should not be considered guilty or treated as such until they are convicted by a final sentence (Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Code).
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