Jorge Glas’s mother has criminally denounced the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, before the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico. One month after the assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito to capture Glas, Norma Espinel, mother of the former vice president, accuses the president of the crimes of kidnapping, subjugation, torture, cruel treatment and forced disappearance, explained the international team of lawyers. who defends him. Other government officials are included in the complaint, such as the Minister of the Interior, Mónica Palencia, the Police Commander, César Zapata, the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Jaime Vela, and Judge Rita Bravo, who heard the case in the Flagrant Unit where Glas was taken on the night of April 5.
The complaint was sent on April 26 in a diplomatic bag from the Mexican embassy in Spain and is already with the Prosecutor’s Office. “All the defendants acknowledged their participation and we are in the process of having the prosecutor analyze all these situations so that he can make a determination in accordance with the law,” said Miguel Olmedo Robles, one of Glas’s defense lawyers. According to Robles, the complaint is based on the fact that the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office has territorial jurisdiction because the reported events occurred in a Mexican legation, and in addition, there is personal jurisdiction against Minister Palencia because she is from that country. The lawsuit also asks to investigate the police officers who participated in the operation the day they broke into the Embassy.
On another front, the legal team has extended to Germany through another lawsuit, for the crimes of deprivation of liberty, serious bodily injury and coercion, without determining who is accused in the case. The complaint was filed because Jorge Glas has German nationality. The former vice president’s lawyers also presented a series of complaints to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention about his capture and treatment in the La Roca maximum security prison, where he has been held since April 6. The complaint focused on the fact that Glas’ detention had been carried out “in an absolute breach of the inviolability of the Mexican diplomatic mission in Ecuador,” explains lawyer Aitor Martínez. Furthermore, he has very limited communication with his defense, the jurist assures, “to the point that he faced the procedure of habeas corpus without ever having had a reserved meeting with their lawyers.” According to the defender, prior to the habeas corpus hearing he was only able to access a brief and concise online meeting, but “with the presence of public forces in front of him, and with those thirty minutes with his lawyers, he had to face the habeas corpus procedure.”
Jorge Glas remains detained in the maximum security prison called La Roca, where he is on a hunger strike, according to his defense in Ecuador, Andrés Villegas. The lawyer has been able to visit him twice in the prison in Guayaquil, although he assures that on both occasions they have not had a private conversation. “At all times we have been with the presence of the military, they even review the writings that have the legal criteria, the legal strategies,” says the defender, who acknowledges that he does not know exactly the state of health of the former vice president, who remains with serums and vitamins. For this reason, they have also requested that members of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visit Glas in La Roca.
Jorge Glas’s defense has requested an extension of provisional measures before the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) until the Ecuadorian authorities release him immediately. They are making the same request before the Ecuadorian justice, in the habeas corpus appeal presented in April before the National Court, which recognized that Glas’ detention was illegal and arbitrary, but denied the freedom of Rafael Correa’s official, because about him There are two final sentences for corruption, and that before entering the Mexican Embassy in mid-December, Glas was serving the remainder of his sentence in freedom. He had the obligation to appear periodically before the competent authority; However, he requested asylum from the Mexican legation to avoid a new judicial process against him that investigates the misuse of public funds intended for the reconstruction of areas affected by an earthquake in 2016, according to the Public Ministry. Jorge Glas chaired the Reconstruction Committee that administered around 3 billion dollars.
Glas’s defense has requested in different instances the immediate release and that the Noboa Government extend a safe passage so that he can leave the country, a requirement imposed by Mexico to direct a possible settlement of relations between both countries after the assault on the Embassy. said Alicia Bárcena, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, in an interview for EL PAÍS. “If they give us safe passage and give us Jorge Glas, we can start. The other is that they provide us with consular access. He is our political asylum and is sick in prison and under quite bad conditions,” said Bárcena.
The Ecuadorian Government has not shown that it will provide safe passage to Glas, while the diplomatic crisis is awaiting a resolution from the judges of the International Court of Justice, following a lawsuit by Mexico against Ecuador, which also made a countersuit and He is waiting for the ICJ to respond to his request.
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