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On the morning of this Sunday, the hearing against the police continued behind closed doors Harby Damián Rodríguez Díaz and Juan Camilo Lloreda Cubillos, accused of the murder of law student Javier Ordóñez.
During the diligence, the Attorney General’s Office asked Judge 29 for the control of guarantees that order the security measure in a prison against the uniformed.
The accusing body sustained that his freedom could endanger the judicial process that is being followed for the murder of Ordóñez, as well as his possible appearance before justice.
(Read also: Police officers raise conflict of powers in the case of Javier Ordóñez).
This Saturday Rodríguez and Lloreda were charged with the crimes of aggravated homicide and aggravated torture, due to the events he suffered on the night of September 9, when he first received several electric shocks in a police proceeding and then, at the Villaluz CAI, he allegedly received blows from the police, which caused his death
However, the uniformed men – who were suspended from their position – they did not accept the crimes charged. On the contrary, they raised a conflict of jurisdiction stating that it should not be an ordinary judge who heard their case but the Military Criminal Justice. The judge assured that she is not competent to resolve the conflict of competencies, but the Disciplinary Chamber of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, but for now it will resolve the assurance measure and then that Chamber will have to decide who is responsible for taking the case.
In addition, on Friday night The judge legalized the detention of the two policemen, considering that there were no irregularities in the procedure and their fundamental rights were respected.
(Read: Necropsy reveals the wounds suffered by Javier Ordóñez).
Before the court, the accusing body released the evidence, testimonies, expert opinions, including the result of the necropsy of Forensic Medicine, which accounts for the violence with which Ordóñez was beaten and died. It also uncovered testimonies about the blows that the victim continued to receive within the Villaluz CAI.
The request of the Prosecutor’s Office to hold the hearing behind closed doors, which was accepted by the judge, caused rejection by the media, recalling that according to a ruling of the Constitutional Court this year, the publicity of the hearings should be the rule, and its restriction, the exception. The Constitutional Court even stated that the judges had the obligation to support the arguments to close the hearings and provide the media with all the information. In this case, the judge’s argument was that opening the doors could “seriously compromise the success of the investigation.”
Therefore, several journalists presented a right to petition for the hearing to be public. Faced with this request, the judge decided to open the hearing to the media for this final part in which she will decide on the security measure.
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Today the Foundation for Press Freedom ruled on the matter and assured that the decision to hold the private hearing limited the right to information of the citizenship, for which he called on the guarantee control judge to review the “legality, suitability, necessity and proportionality of the restriction as this is not clear in the statement” issued by the court.
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