Lawrence Delloy, son of the presidential excandidata Ingrid Betancourt, just get an important victory against the Farc before the courts of the United States. This after a federal in New Jersey ordered them to pay the members of this organization 36 million dollars in restitution by the kidnapping of their mother between 2002 and 2008.
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Delloye, through the firm of Scarinci Hollenbeck law firm, raised a lawsuit in 2018 alleging that the group had violated the anti-terrorist or ATA act, which allows the victims of this scourge to raise charges against EE courts US seeking compensation.
The demand claims that the kidnapping of Betancourt caused Delloye a severe emotional stress. A week ago, Judge Matthew W. Brann concluded that the lawyers had been able to prove that Delloye was sheltered by the ATA and that the FARC were responsible for his ordeal.
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Brann determined that $12 million of that $36 million will go to the victim and $24 million to cover attorneys’ fees and other costs.
It is uncertain, however, if the funds may charge as the FARC and its members do not have assets in the US. UU What is clear is the case generates a precedent for future demands against the group of other victims.
“Although no sum of money can replace the time that Delloye lost with his mother or healthy the trauma that the FARC caused him, we are proud to have helped him to do justice somehow,” said Robert Levy, who represented the family during litigation.
SERGIO GÓMEZ MASERI
EL TIEMPO correspondent
Washington
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