The defense council of Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota, will request the judge of the Permanent Attention Court of the National District to impose preventive detention once morest his clientwho is accused of the murder of the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Merahappened this Monday morning.
Manuel Sierra and Ybo René Sánchez understand that Judge Juan Francisco Consoro must order preventive detention once morest their client for security reasons, respect for society and the family.
“We are not going to oppose the request of measure of coercion for a matter of respect for society, for a matter of respect for the family and because we want this to flow and seek objective truthlimited Manny Sierra.
The hearing was postponed for this Saturday at 9 in the morning at the request of the lawyer Miguel Valerio, who represents the relatives of the Minister of the Environment, to learn of the accusation presented by the Public Ministry.
To this request, he did not oppose the interim prosecutor of the National District, Kelvin Colónthe court attorney, Mirna Ortiz and the lawyers of the accused, held in the preventive prison of the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva.
The defendant’s lawyers complained that the Public Ministry interrogated the defendant without the presence of his lawyers and that, furthermore, things that his client said during the interrogation were not reflected in the request.
According to the indictment, Cruz de la Mota, 56, committed the act in Jorge Mera’s office, located in the Ministry of the Environment, on Luperón Avenue, in this capital, and then ran away towards the Church of Jesus Christ, High and Eternal Priest, located in the Real urbanization.
In the religious temple, Cruz de la Mota gave the gun to a priest to whom he explained that he had committed a crime, although without identifying the victim.
