They threaten the judge who released Álvaro Uribe

The lawyer Clara Ximena Salcedo, judge 30 of guarantees of Bogotá and who granted the freedom to former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez on October 10, He received harassment through social networks, which for the authorities represents a real threat against him.

This was reported by Revista Semana, which indicates that there was an emergency security study and protection was assigned. Apparently, the official began to receive these attacks after making the decision that lifted the security measure against the former head of state.

Salcedo has a security scheme assigned while the investigations progress to find those responsible behind the threats. It is also investigating whether the harassment is due to the decision made by the judge in the Uribe case.

Let us remember that the decision of the gown of The immediate release of Uribe was based on the fact that there can be no detention without charges under Law 906, after that case passed from the Supreme Court to the ordinary justice.

In a virtual hearing and with one of the most delicate court cases, the judge ruled: “The decision made by this official is to agree to the request submitted by the defense, supported by the Attorney General’s Office and the representation of the public prosecutor and in that order and consequently the immediate release of Dr. Álvaro will be ordered. Uribe Velez “.

Who is the judge 30 of guarantees of Bogotá?

In her 10 years as a lawyer, she was responsible for conducting several hearings and listening to both the defense of the former president and the victims in the case, to arrive at the ruling that released the political leader, last Saturday, October 10. It is a sensitive and controversial file from any point of view, but Salcedo knew how to avoid, under his constitutional functions, a terrain that involves one of the most decisive political figures of the last decades in the country.

Only the basics of her professional path are known about the judge. El Espectador reported that little is known about her and less when no Paloquemao official wants or can refer to Salcedo.

As detailed by that medium, Salcedo graduated from Law at the National University, just as Uribe was leaving the House of Nariño. In 2017, when Uribe was finishing his third year in the Senate, Salcedo came to support the office of magistrate José Francisco Acuña, in the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court. And in March 2018, while Salcedo was ‘fighting’ a quota to serve as a municipal criminal judge, the investigation against Uribe was just starting.

The lawyer wanted to be a judge of knowledge, but She was selected as the 30th judge of guarantees in Bogotá, with an outstanding score in the knowledge test. This change of route led her to be in the focus of the press and of the millions of Colombians who follow this process.