It was learned this Tuesday that the lawyer Juan Carlos Manriquezwho represents the family of the retired lieutenant of the Venezuelan army Ronald Ojedaindicated that he has the necessary background to present the case of the murder of the former Venezuelan military officer before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Manríquez assures that he plans to go to the last moments with the investigations of the kidnapping and subsequent homicide of Ojeda.
All the information collected will add to the file called “Venezuela I” that this court opened to investigate the various complaints of crimes against humanity that have been generated in the country since the protests of 2017..
According to what Manríquez stated, the figure that will be used before the court will be that of persecution of dissidents and forced disappearance.
Ojeda, who was one of the dissident soldiers who escaped from the Ramo Verde prison along with other colleagues in 2017, was accused last January along with 32 other people of “treason against the country.”
After that, on February 21, the news of his kidnapping by false Chilean police officers in his apartment located in Santiago was known, however nine days after his disappearance his body was found in a suitcase buried under a slab of a meter and a half of cement, in an illegal seizure in Maipú.
A 17-year-old Venezuelan teenager has so far been arrested for this incident.who was accused of being an accomplice and member of Ojeda’s kidnapping.
In the same way, it was learned that there are a couple of suspects who are speculated to be the direct authors of this crime, which is why they are being sought with an international arrest request, since everything indicates that they have already fled Chile, as stated. review Final Version.
Likewise, Manríquez recalled that since 2018, a preliminary investigation called Venezuela I has been open at the International Criminal Court.which has collected a large amount of background on those who have had to be part of the Venezuelan diaspora, both for political reasons and persecution, and those who are subjects of forced displacement. At the same time, there are those who maintain that there is a systematic policy of eliminating opponents.”.
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