The Power of attorney ordered 18 months of Preventive detention once morest former President Pedro Castillo for the alleged crimes of rebellion, conspiracy, abuse of authority and serious disturbance of public peace. In the case of the former head of the Ministerial Cabinet, Hannibal Torresthe measure of appearance with restrictions was imposed on him.
During the hearing, the Prosecutor’s Office argued that there is flagrante delicto in the crime that is imputed to himsince the former president called on the Armed Forces to comply with the provisions that he had adopted at the time of decreeing the failed coup attempt.
Regarding procedural danger, the representative of the Public ministry He contemplated the intention of escaping when he went to the Mexican Embassy: “We do not believe that he went to the Mexican Embassy to have tea.”
For his part, Italo Díaz, Castillo’s lawyer, replied that the former president did not intend to seek asylum in Mexico. He said that Ambassador Ebrard offered him asylum, but his defense had never requested it. In addition, he added that there are sayings around his patronage, but no proof.
Meanwhile, Duberlí Rodríguez, a lawyer for Hannibal Torreswas in the same line and pointed out that the Prosecutor’s Office does not have evidence that his client has taken up arms and that there is no indication of his participation in the failed coup d’état.
Rodríguez emphasized that preventive detention should not be a rule of the criminal process: “Preventive detention is the exception and not the rule. (However), the judicialization of politics (has subverted this order),” he asserted.