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The defense of the former rector of the Autonomous University of Barranquilla is convicted of illegal self-loans and bribery and is in another criminal proceeding for the murder of rancher Fernando Cepeda.
The former rector of the Autonomous University of Barranquilla Silvia Gette Ponce is no stranger to controversy. With two convictions on top, one for borrowing millionaire sums of money to make personal payments with money from the institution, and another for having offered a bribe of $ 250 million to the former paramilitary chief of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia Don Antonio To change his version of the crime of cattle rancher Fernando Cepeda, Gette is now in the news for his celebrations in the midst of a pandemic.
The former official is being held at home in jail, not only because the court dictated it in one of the cases for which she was convicted, but also because the Barranquilla Superior Court granted her habeas corpus, according to her defense. While in his luxurious mansion in the capital of the Atlantic and still facing criminal proceedings for the death of the rancher Cepeda, which occurred in 2003, Gette had what appears to be a birthday party surrounded by many people on November 18. The photographs of the celebration were uploaded to a social network and later published by local media.
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The photograph shows, very well dressed, six people. Although, El Heraldo points out, in a short video at least 10 people were seen at the celebration. Everything, without biosecurity protocols or masks despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Curiously, after knowing the images, Raúl Cadena, one of his lawyers issued a statement assuring that the former rector “is a human being who has a certain age that makes her of special care against COVID-19, for that reason the judge who knows The procedure revealed that the aforementioned decrees were appropriate to her state, which is why she considered that her residence or, better yet, house arrest, is the best situation for her to continue serving her prison sentence ”.
“It is worth emphasizing that criminal law is not conceived as a vengeful spirit but with the aim of restoring the right that allegedly has been violated to the victims of the infraction of the law. In other words, the deprivation of liberty intramurally is not the only way to re-socialize the offender, otherwise we should think about the death penalty. Today on Christmas Eve, as at any time, the protection of life deserves greater safeguard than any other fundamental right, “added his lawyer.
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