ATTENTION hearing against Nicolás Petro and Day Vásquez was suspended: why

2023-07-30 07:53:02

Around 8:14 pm, the preliminary hearing to legalize the capture of Gustavo Petro’s son had begun. and Day Vásquez, in the Paloquemao judicial complex.

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Why was the legalization of the capture of Nicolás Petro and Day Vásquez postponed?

The process could not be brought forward since “there was undue information,” according to the judge, since Day Vásquez’s lawyers were just catching a flight to Bogotá, therefore they were not present at the beginning of the hearing.

For this fact, the judge refused to legalize the capture and asked the Prosecutor’s Office to file it again, in order to have absolute clarity in the process. In fact, the first judge of control of guarantees said that she waited more than two hours for the arrival of the lawyers, but that when they did not arrive, the procedure should be cancelled.

“This office has given a prudent term of two hours, because this hearing was filed at 6:35 in the afternoon, it is 8:32 and there are no defense attorneys for Mrs. Daysuris del Carmen Vázquez Castro to proceed with the hearing. start of this hearing,” said the judge.

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Ricardo Méndez, Day Vásquez’s main lawyer, spoke from a plane that was taking him from Barranquilla to Bogotá to comment that “in accordance with the prior notice he has had” he was just moving to the capital, despite being informed that the hearing would begin at 11:00 p.m.

Of course, this fact meant that Méndez could not be in the bunker of the Prosecutor’s Office with his client, for which he requested the postponement of the proceeding.

The capture of Nicolás Petro, the eldest son of President Gustavo Petro, had occurred around 6:00 in the morning this Saturday, July 29, for allegedly receiving money from obscure sources to invest in his father’s presidential campaign.

The president expressed that he wished his son luck in the process that was being carried out against him and mentioned that he would not intervene at any time in favor of Nicolás Petro and his ex-partner.