2023-09-02 19:02:21
Through a statement, he stated: “Dr. Nicolás Petro and his lawyer have decided to terminate the mandate conferred to exercise his technical defense in criminal proceedings. The reasons are of a personal nature on the part of the lawyer, and said reasons have been accepted by Dr. Petro Burgos”.
Nicolás Petro lost his lawyer in the process against him for illicit enrichment and influence peddling. | Photo: AFP
Teleki highlighted the progress made in the process and the possibility, thanks to the collaboration agreement with the justice system, of achieving freedom for Nicolás Petro.
According to Teleki, Nicolás Petro was in an excellent legal situation. | Photo: Video Capture
“Thus, being in an unbeatable legal situation of freedom. I wish Dr. Petro Burgos the best of luck, whatever the path chosen or his defensive strategy. For my friend Nicolás Petro, I hope for a prompt and effective solution to his legal problem, an issue that was exclusively what interested this technical defense ”the statement read.
SEMANA has received information about an alleged estrangement between Teleki with the Casa de Nariño and President Gustavo Petro; Perhaps that is why it is no coincidence that in the last line of this statement he thanks the Burgos family, referring only to the second last name of the president’s son.
Laura Sarabia would have led to a meeting at the Casa de Nariño with Teleki, a meeting that would not have gone down very well with the lawyer. | Photo: file-supplied to api week
Nicolás Petro is free after an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, although he will not be able to leave Barranquilla. | Photo: Facebook Nicolas Petro
Even, Teleki had already warned during the judicial hearings, that from the Government or the executive power of the State they do not see Nicolás, his ex-partner Day Vásquez, and their close environment in the best way, which made them feel threatened.
“You have to be very alert because from the Executive we are being seen, not with good eyes, not as it should be, because the country deserves the truth, but with resentment,” the lawyer mentioned in one of the hearings.
David Teleki denounced that death threats against the son of President Gustavo Petro continue. | Photo: Provided to SEMANA
He even denounced that Nicolás Petro was receiving a series of threats and harassment against him since he decided to cooperate with the Prosecutor’s Office, in the middle of the investigation for the alleged irregular money that would have entered the presidential campaign of Gustavo Petro.
The words of the defense resonate firmly: “Harassment, intimidation, irregular approaches to his place of detention, public messages via Twitter, persecution, threats and false media stigmatization of his person and that of his lawyers.”
David Teleki during the hearing for the insurance measure against Nicolás Petro and Day Vásquez. | Photo: Screenshot audience
“Since the day it became known to the country that Dr. Nicolás Petro Burgos decided to freely and voluntarily initiate the judicial authority (before thousands of communication media in Colombia and the world, expressing it out loud to more than deepen in aspects of his humanity) that began his process of collaboration as a witness, the harassment, intimidation, irregular approaches to his place of confinement, public messages via Twitter, persecutions, threats and false media stigmatization of his person and that of his lawyers began. posing all of us (witness, defense, judicial servants) as ‘conspired’ enemies and chosen target of the legal and illegal armed groups in Colombian territory,” Teleki said in a statement released on August 11.
Nicolás Petro, apparently, settled the differences with his father, President Gustavo Petro. Days ago, both met. | Photo: Week – Presidency of the Republic
With determination, the lawyer stressed that what is happening is a “strategy” to disqualify the collaboration of Nicolás Petro. “It is a lying, insane and violent narrative that seeks to affect the witness, their statements, their defender, interfere in defensive strategies and put a spanner in the wheel of the administration of justice, when not trying to hide the truth by way of physically and morally eliminating the witness and the defense.”
Likewise, he affirmed that everything that is happening has nothing to do with political pretensions, since, he said, “we do not attack or defend political projects, but rather the human being Nicolás Petro. But they insist on seriously endangering our lives.”
“Each and every one of the actions carried out in this process have been public, transmitted in real time to the whole world, with universal coverage, and with the accompaniment of the technical defense that has never observed a hint of pressure, violation of their rights , intimidation or constraint of any kind. Quite the contrary, the defenses, accompanied by the Public Prosecutor, account for the treatment of height and humanity that was given to Nicolás Petro Burgos”.
Nicolás Petro and Day Vásquez during the hearing held in Bogotá. | Photo: Video Capture
“We reject and address the IACHR —August 11, 2023— to deny all support for an abusive, impertinent, lying, deceitful petition, loaded with political interests, made by the representative of a political party, Colombia Humana, named Eduardo Noriega , who, usurping the positions and assuming false ‘amicus curiae’, intends to hinder the collaborative judicial process, intimidate the defense by fanciful accusations of conspiracies that are only in his head, spurious allegations about pressure on Nicolás Petro, alleged illegal procedures, absurd violations and unreal rights of Nicolás Petro; In short, all sorts of entelequias that put the process and the procedural subjects at mortal risk.”
And he added: “We have addressed the IACHR to report these serious acts of persecution of the defense, judicial servants and the witness by individuals like Noriega, who do not want the truth for Colombia, even if it is using fantasies.”
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