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Once the judicial official reported on the attacks against her, it was necessary that the National Protection Unit (UNP) and the National Police they will assign a security schemereported Semana.
The threats and intimidating messages came through social networks after the former senator was released in a hearing that took place in the Paloquemao Courts, in Bogotá, last Saturday, October 10.
According to the magazine, these are “very strong messages” that led the authorities to carry out an urgent risk study and made the decision to send him a group of bodyguards to take care of his safety in a preventive and immediate way.
Said threats and harassment will also be assessed by the Dijín cybercrime group for find the responsible people and safeguard the integrity of the official, El Espectador added. This weekend, the newspaper adds, the judge will deliver her statement to the experts.
One of the first to react and reject the threats was precisely Jaime Granados, defense attorney for the former president:
I emphatically reject any type of threat or intimidation to Judge 30 of guarantees of Bogotá and to all the judicial authorities that day by day carry out the courageous task of administering justice. I ask the competent officials to protect them.
– Jaime Granados Peña (@JGranadosPena) October 17, 2020
Álvaro Uribe’s case came randomly to Judge Salcedo after the Supreme Court of Justice indicated that it did not have jurisdiction to continue with the process for procedural fraud and bribery of witnesses that was ahead of the former president when he resigned from the Senate.
At first, he returned the case to the Court so that it could determine under what law the former Senator of the Democratic Center should be tried, and when it was confirmed that it would be the ordinary justice, she ordered the immediate release of Uribe because it considered that the investigation is not equivalent to the hearing for the imputation of charges; a decision that was supported by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office at the hearing.
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