The judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno has rejected the complaint filed against the former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged crimes against humanity and torture in Venezuela because it is based, “solely and exclusively”, on press clippings and social networks.
In an order known this Friday, the instructor argues, following the criteria of the Prosecutor’s Office, that in the complaint there is no “any objective data” that links the former president to the reported events “nor any hint of his knowledge of them.”
In the complaint, which was articulated in various sections, a general introduction was made about the political regime in Venezuela and then assured that Zapatero “was not only aware” of the crimes that Nicolás Maduro had committed but that “everything points to his clear connection with the leadership of the regime Bolivarian and that its activity has been aimed at promoting its perpetuation outside of a democratic process.”
Likewise, the individuals who promoted the complaint – a group of people who feel persecuted by the leaders of Venezuela – claimed in the complaint that the intervention of the former president in “the release of opposition leaders deprived of liberty, that is, political prisoners, as well as of those who are in a clandestine situation, until leading them into exile to the Kingdom of Spain – in reference to Edmundo González -, also “It obeys the mission entrusted to it by the regime’s leadership.”.
Furthermore, on September 23, a written extension of the complaint was presented in the same Central Court of Instruction number 2 of the National Court in which the complainants said they provided “new facts based on journalistic information about some suspicious threats scattered» supposedly by Zapatero against the president of the constituent assembly of Venezuela, Julio Borges.
But Judge Ismael Moreno misses that among the plaintiffs’ statements, in addition to press clippings, “there is no offer no element or principle of proof that reasonably supports its verisimilitude, with the complainants limiting themselves to affirming its existence without any objective support.
For this reason and due to the repeated jurisprudence of the Supreme Court that exists in this regard, Moreno has chosen to reject the complaint, also in line with the position reflected by the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court in its report.
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