Tegucigalpa.- The guilty verdict against the former manager of the company Desarrollos Energéticos Sociedad Anónima (DESA) Roberto David Castillo is inexorable because there are sufficient and forceful elements that confirm his participation in the crime of the Lenca defender Berta Cáceres, said this Thursday the lawyer Victor Fernandez.
The legal professional indicated that the trial that began in April is nearing its end, “we are closing the evacuation of our evidence and the Public Ministry incorporated (a) very important, conclusive evidence to establish the facts of March 2, 2016 “That link Castillo to the murder.
The lawyer for Berta Cáceres’s case said that they have incorporated several expert opinions, “but fundamentally the one that we are evacuating now” explains how Castillo became linked to different power structures that allowed him to corrupt the State’s institutions and “together with the power structure superior, obtain the concession of the Gualcarque river ”and then“ impose it violently in the territory ”.
In that dispute raised by the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Copinh) and Berta Cáceres, “it is also credited that all this power condition that (Castillo) had served him to assume the decision to assassinate” the leader indigenous, he points out.
He added that “we are finished with this part in which the expert, who is an expert in criminal networks in Central America, establishes that the motive for Bertita’s murder is the dispute over nature, over the Gualcarque river in the Lenca territory.”
But, in addition, it establishes that there is a direct link between Castillo, who functions as a link between the higher structure that are the owners of the DESA company and other people related to the structure of the military and hitmen who carried out the crime.
Castillo remains as part of the upper structure, but in the lower part of that upper structure, which is the business sector, the lawyer explained.
He assured that “we are certain, there are sufficient, conclusive elements that confirm the participation of Mr. Roberto David Castillo in this crime, we hope that there will be a guilty verdict, that is an inexorable result.”
In the next week, the defense of Castillo is expected to evacuate his evidence, “with which we are going to confirm that all the information that has been handled, to support the accusatory hypothesis, is also collected by the defense.”
Fernández also mentioned that Castillo represents a business structure linked to an escalation of acts of corruption and criminal acts that constitute an illicit association, and whose parties are unpunished.
He recalled that in addition to a murdered person, “there is a corrupt hydroelectric project that damages the interests of the Lenca people, that damages the interests of the State of Honduras and is in force, that is the reality.”
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