This Saturday will hear the request hearing for a coercive measure once morest Fausto Miguel Cruz de la Mota, who shot several shots at the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Orlando Jorge Mera, last Monday.
The hearing was scheduled to be held last Thursday, but Judge Francisco Rodríguez, of the National District Court of Permanent Attention, decided to set a new date for hearing the request for a coercive measure, as a result of the defense of the victimizer stating that he needed more time to review the file.
The Public Ministry has requested a year of preventive detention, and detailed in the coercive measure request document that Cruz committed the act by denying a permit for the export of some 5,000 tons of used batteries.
Fausto Miguel Cruz’s lawyers affirmed that they will not oppose the measure of coercion requested by the prosecutors, although they assured that their client “is not guilty.”
“The defense met and determined that, regardless of the budget that he (Fausto Miguel Cruz) has in order not to impose preventive detention on him, the best thing is, out of prudence, we are not going to oppose the coercive measure initiated by the Public Ministry,” said Ivo René Sánchez, member of the defendant’s defense.