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Early Monday morning, lawyers for former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso filed the first appeal to try to overturn the decision of the United States government to stop his extradition to Italy and send him to Colombia.
As EL TIEMPO revealed on Sunday, after strong lobbying by Colombia and making use of an administrative measure, the Trump government issued a decision that leaves the federal judge’s order without a floor, which gave until September 4 for it to come out in a direct flight to Rome, after serving 12 years in jail in the United States and completing 154 days in immigration jail.
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“Salvatore Mancuso Gómez, by and through the undersigned attorney, and respectfully submits this Emergency Motion to annul the suspension of the proceeding and for an immediate hearing on the petitioner’s motion to issue a temporary restraining order,” the document says. .in the hands of this newspaper.
After warning that Sunday’s decision, revealed by EL TIEMPO, is rare and exceptional, they ask that an immediate hearing be convened to suspend the decision to send him to Colombia
The emergency request filed by the defense of Mancuso.
According to Mancuso’s defense, headed by Cuban-American Joaquín Pérez, “the government denied its guarantees and statements made to Mr. Mancuso and to this Court when they reported their expulsion to Italy. So late, at the close of operations on Friday, August 28 of 2020, the government attorney informed the undersigned attorney that Mr. Mancuso was still scheduled for transfer to Italy. However, less than 24 hours later, the Defendants notified Mr. Mancuso that they had changed their mind. “
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The appeal was filed at 12:40 in the morning of August 31 to Judge Richard J. León, the same one who ordered the transfer to Italy, a country of which Mancuso is a citizen due to the origin of his father.
Shipping to Colombia, a hoax?
The defense of the ex-paramilitary, accused of ordering more than 136 massacres, points out that the notification of dispatch to Colombia was delivered without any explanation, did not cite any request or extradition order from Colombia and did not explain why a deportation to Italy would “harm” the U.S. government.
On the contrary, they point out, the change in the destination of the deportation (Colombia) is worrying and they ask the judge why the Prosecutor’s Office did not notify him of its intentions to change the destination of deportation, at the hearing held on August 24, 2020 In fact they speak of a deception of the judge.
After warning that Sunday’s decision, revealed by EL TIEMPO, is rare and exceptional, they ask that an immediate hearing be called to suspend the decision to send him to Colombia.
Also,. that the Prosecutor’s Office be ordered to immediately provide her file as a foreigner, including the notes, for review and preparation for any judicial hearing.
The Prosecutor’s Office is also ordered to prove the cause for which they revoked his statements before this Court, that they said that he was going to be transferred to Italy no later than September 4. And, finally, Mancuso is asked to be sent to Washington, so that from there he can carry out other procedures for his defense.
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