2024-09-04 05:47:27
After Hermosilla’s defense team confirmed that it had had conversations with prosecutors who handled the case, the Public Prosecutor’s Office responded through a statement.
Luis Hermosilla’s lawyer, Juan Pablo Hermosilla, said that he will make public his brother’s chats, assuring that the latter had conversations via WhatsApp with prosecutors of the Audios Case. In light of this, the Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office East He clarified that prosecutor Lorena Parra did have chats with the criminal lawyer in a previous case, but that this does not disqualify her from the case “even if they want to cast doubt on our actions.”
In a statement, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said that “the investigation of the Audios Case has been carried out by an investigative team led by Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor Lorena Parra Parra. This team has worked with the utmost rigor, objectivity, speed and confidentiality required by the crimes charged in this case, leaving no room for arbitrariness and/or politicization of the facts. As the defender of Luis Hermosilla has pointed out, his brother, Juan Pablo Hermosilla.”
Along these lines, they stressed that Lorena Parra met Luis Hermosilla within the context in which the trial against him took place. sacerdote John O’Reillywhere the lawyer acted as defender of the religious accused of sexual abuse.
Eastern District Attorney’s Office assures impartiality in investigation despite chats between Parra and Hermosilla
“Although there was communication in the past – through WhatsApp – between the Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor East with Luis Hermosilla, this in no way inhibited the Regional Prosecutor and her team from investigating the defendants involved in the Audios Casewho were brought before a court of guarantees that confirmed the existence of the facts and the participation of the accused as authors, leaving two of them in preventive detention,” they stated.
Although there was knowledge of conversations between the prosecutor and the lawyer in the past, the Public Prosecutor’s Office stressed that “There is no impediment to her investigating“.
They added: “The National Prosecutor’s Office, which was informed and knew from the beginning about the existence of these past conversations, also believed this.”
Due to the above, from the Metropolitan Regional Prosecutor’s Office East “We reject any type of intimidation or action to disqualify and discredit our prosecutors and their investigative work. which continues with the same reserve, rigor and respect for guarantees required by our criminal system,” they concluded.