Colombia: Petro goes to the Colombian Prosecutor’s Workplace to defend his honor after Pastrana’s drug trafficking accusations

MADRID, 30 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, declared this Tuesday that he’s going as deliberate to the Colombian Prosecutor’s Workplace to defend his “honor and good identify”, in addition to that of his Authorities after the accusations of drug trafficking that he attributed to late final yr former president Andrés Pastrana.

«Being president has a set interval, however being a citizen and a democrat is eternal, even on the danger of our personal lives. I imagine and defend the establishments of the nation that gave me the privilege of directing them and I come seeking justice as a result of nobody may be above the regulation,” Petro begins his assertion.

“As a democrat, I respect variations, however I don’t reply to the violence of language reserved for many who wish to revenue from momentary energy, with no different concepts than verbal aggression,” mentioned the Colombian president.

Petro has defined that with the grievance filed towards former President Pastrana he intends for the leaders to set an instance and never use their place to exceed the boundaries of freedom of expression with out offering even a single piece of proof of their accusations.

“The nation is aware of that the Prosecutor’s Workplace was created in 1991 as an establishment that investigates and manages social conflicts with values ​​a lot superior in grandeur to those that, like weaklings, attempt to take political benefit of Justice,” emphasised Petro, who introduced that if compensation is acquired, it is going to go “to a basis with a social function.”

PASTRANA REAFFIRMS HIS ACCUSATIONS

For his half, former President Pastrana has introduced that he’ll reaffirm his accusations and that he’ll current the mandatory proof. “There’s a amount of proof and proof, and naturally we carry all of the proof,” he mentioned earlier than showing on the Prosecutor’s Workplace headquarters, in response to the RCN radio station.

In flip, he has criticized that Petro has filed a grievance for what he claims is his train of freedom of expression. “It’s a historic case in Colombia, it’s the first time {that a} president of the republic denounces a former president for expressing his opinion, for being in opposition,” he mentioned.

“Right here what’s at stake is freedom of thought, it’s freedom of opinion, it’s the freedom to oppose,” mentioned Pastrana, who has insisted that he’ll go nose to nose with Petro within the Prosecutor’s Workplace to “stop “the best to opinion and opposition is criminalized.”

On the finish of 2023, former President Pastrana used social networks to straight accuse Petro of getting “merged” the Authorities of Colombia with drug trafficking utilizing the “farce” of the ‘complete peace’ plan, in reference to his insurance policies to comprise The orginazed crime.

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