Notebooks: They refused to release a former official

The Criminal Cbadation Chamber refused to release the exile of the binational entity Yacyretá Oscar Thomas, who was tried in the case

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and that he is under house arrest.

The decision was taken by the judges of the Court I, Diego Barroetaveña and Daniel Petrone, with the dissent of his colleague Ana María Figueroa.

The judges understood that it was not appropriate to release the former head, who had remained in absentia when Judge Claudio Bonadio ordered his arrest in the middle of last year.

Thomas remained on the run until the end of the year, when he surrendered and was arrested. His release was later dismissed in a decision signed by the Federal Court. It was not until last April that Thomas got the benefit of house arrest.

As a result, the judges understood that the rebellion statement is a guideline that must be evaluated to decide whether there is a risk of absconding. That's why they understood that he had to stay under house arrest.

Judge Figueroa, in her dissenting opinion, wrote almost an essay on the abuses of pretrial detention, the
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According to the judge, under the principle of innocence, the defendants must remain at liberty in the procedure, except in exceptional situations that suggest the escape. "In any rule of law in a democratic society", it is intolerable that "preventive prisons are used abusively in violation of constitutional norms" and international treaties "when they have realized manifest arbitrariness" .