Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
La Paz, Nov 13.- The Bolivian Government presented appeals against two courts declared incompetent to try the former de facto president Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020), the main accused of the Senkata and Sacaba massacres, an official source assured.
“We do not share the decision of these courts, we have taken the pertinent actions as a Government in the field of Justice,” said the Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada, interviewed by the state channel Bolivia TV.
She added that this dispute is now in court, which does not mean that what has happened is absolutely defined there, he clarified, and added that the Government will continue to take the corresponding actions.
The Fourth Criminal Sentencing Court of El Alto and the First Sentencing Court of Sacaba declared themselves incompetent in different hearings to criminally try Áñez for the Senkata and Sacaba massacres, respectively, in November 2019.
On October 23, the Attorney General of Bolivia, Juan Lanchipa, presented the indictment against the former de facto president, former government officials, senior police and military officers involved in the Sacaba and Senkata massacres in 2019, and requested a 30-year sentence.
She stated that his report is based on 450 documentary evidence, 25 expert opinions, 11 technical investigation reports and the reception of 126 interviews with members of the Armed Forces, 30 with police officers, 50 with victims and eight with officials of Yacimientos Petrolófilos Fiscales de Bolivia.
In January of this year, after the judicial decision to try the former de facto president by ordinary means, her defense lawyer, Luis Guillén, filed an appeal against that ruling, which was rejected.
In November 2019, these repressive actions by military and police forces were recorded with nearly 40 deaths and hundreds of injuries from firearms.
However, the judge determined that the former senator faces an ordinary process, which only requires an accusation from the Prosecutor's Office to proceed to trial in a sentencing court.
The Public Ministry, for its part, expanded the accusation against Áñez for the signing of Supreme Decree 4078 (known as Death), which exempted the military and police from criminal responsibility for the violence applied in the repression against those who demanded to restore order. constitutional after the coup d'état of November 10, 2019.
Due to these events, the former president is now accused of the crimes of genocide, homicide and serious and minor injuries, provided for and punished by articles 138, 251 and 271 of the Bolivian Penal Code with a maximum sentence of 30 years. (Text and photo: PL)
