In the Mexico’s embassy in Spain, Norma Espinel Aráuzmother of Jorge Glasfiled a complaint for the invasion of the diplomatic headquarters in Ecuador to arrest the former vice president. According to the document, it will be addressed to the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic.
An alleged crime is attributed to the president Daniel Noboaas well as the Minister of Government (currently of the Interior), Monica Palencia; to the judge Rita Bravo; to the commanding general of the National Police, Cesar Zapataalready Jaime Velahead of the Joint Command.
The complaint determines Norma Espinel as an “indirect victim” of Glas. And he remembers the events that occurred on April 5, “when armed people violently and illegally entered the diplomatic premises and kidnapped his son, Mr. Jorge David Glas Espinel«.
Several articles of the Mexican Constitution are also detailed in which, according to the family’s lawyers, it is confirmed that the events described, under the responsibility of the Ecuadorian authorities, would constitute a crime. For this reason, they ask the Prosecutor’s Office “to start the corresponding investigation file.”
Ecuador defends that the assault on the Mexican Embassy was an “exceptional” act
The previous May 1, Ecuador defended before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)that the assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito to drag the former vice president Jorge Glas It was an “exceptional” and “isolated” act, while emphasizing that the Ecuadorian politician has been “duly convicted” of corruption crimes.
Andrés Terán Parral, ambassador of Ecuador to the Netherlandspointed out during the second day of the hearing for this case that his country has given written “guarantees” to Mexico that it will fulfill its duty to respect and protect its staff and diplomatic headquarters, but justified the arrest of the former vice president after attacking the Mexican embassy in Quito.
He opened and closed the interventions that lasted one hour and forty-five minutes. They accompanied him Alfredo CrosatoPeruvian lawyer, and Sir Michael Woods y Sean Murphyexperts in litigation between states.
Ecuador, in his line of defense, was conciliatory and firm. It showed itself as a nation respectful of International right, the rules, diplomatic customs, and treaties. He said he was aware of the inviolability of diplomatic missions and recognized what happened on April 5 at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, but encapsulated it as an absolutely exceptional event.
«Mexico wrongly used its diplomatic headquarters in Quito for months to shelter a common criminal who has been duly convicted on two occasions by the highest courts of Ecuador of serious crimes related to corruption and is subject to ongoing proceedings related to more cases of corruption and other crimes,” he defended Andrés Terán Parral, ambassador of Ecuador to the Netherlands.
According to Ecuavisa, Mexico asked the CIJ that demands Quito “take appropriate and immediate measures to provide full protection and security of diplomatic facilities, their property and archives, preventing any form of intrusion against them.”
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