2023-05-08 09:24:29
The Colombian Attorney General, Francisco Barbosa, announced last Friday that his family will leave the country “for fear that they will be killed.” The president’s interference Gustavo Petro in justice they have been constant. So, for example, as account Weekat the beginning of 2023, The Government asked the Prosecutor’s Office to suspend the arrest warrants and release 16 criminals the Clan del Golfo and the Pachenca; In principle, the accusing body rejected the request –although the Prosecutor’s Office ended up giving in with the suspension of the arrest warrants against Farc dissidents and ELN members, attending to “the Government’s intentions to work for the sake of peace”–.
#Attention Prosecutor Francisco Barbosa announced that his family will leave the country in the coming days “for fear that they will be assassinated.” “This is not a game, this is not a mechanism that can be taken lightly. Gustavo Petro is not the head of the opposition in a country, he is the head of… pic.twitter.com/zfJ6ykWsUO
— BluRadio Colombia (@BluRadioCo) May 5, 2023
The relationship of Barbosa and Petro, classified as “toxic” by the taxbecame even more poisoned when the Colombian president charged on Twitter against prosecutor Daniel Hernández, charged in the Odebrecht corruption case. Petro accused him of not preventing more than 200 murders by the Clan del Golfo. Barbosa reminded him that he was the prosecutor and Petro, in Spain, cocky, replied: “The prosecutor forgets one thing and that the Constitution orders. I am the head of statetherefore chief of him.”
This Saturday, the aforementioned magazine Week published an interview with the prosecutor Barbosa in which he denied that Petro was his boss: “No, he is not. He is the president and has a constitutional function, but being head of state does not mean being the head of the judicial branch and the Public Power”. “Being administrative head of the country does not mean that he can dictatorially meddle in the functions of mayors and governors and remove them. He is subject to the rule of law,” he added.
When asked if he feels threatened by what Petro said, Barbosa answers bluntly: “What he did was put a tombstone on me, to my family, the environment of the Prosecutor’s Office and the deputy attorney general. He told us: ‘I’m here for you, I’m going for the Prosecutor’s Office, for what you are doing.’ Of course, that materializes in trills that he has set in recent days, where he even put minors at risk. Also to us, with photos of the prosecutor, of the deputy prosecutor.”
The prosecutor denounced that Petro has put them at risk “linking us with criminal organizations, telling us that we promote and do not adequately investigate deaths that occurred in 2010 by the Clan del Golfo” and accused him of being a dictator: “When he says he is the chief prosecutor, he is sending me a message: obey or I don’t know what I’m going to do do with you. What is that called? A dictatorship. That is, Petro is taking off his democrat suit and he is putting on the dictator suit“.
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