Bolivian justice refused to prosecute Jeanine Áñez as former president

Bolivian justice rejected on Thursday an appeal presented by former president Jeanine Áñez to be treated in a liability lawsuit and not before the ordinary judge when he claims that her quality of ex-president is taken into consideration.

The second criminal chamber of the court of peace ruled out this option, according to the Bolivian newspaper ‘Time’, while the former president’s team denounced that justice in this South American country “is subject to power”.

Through a message on Áñez’s Twitter profile, she and her defense expressed their disagreement with the Bolivian court ruling and They denounced that he is a “victim of procedural and political violence”, while they regretted that the former president continues to be “detained without crime”.

Áñez has been in preventive prison since March accused of sedition, terrorism, conspiracy and genocide, Among other crimes, for his role in the post-election crisis of 2019, in what has been called the “coup” affair.

In connection with this case, the former president has several proceedings opened, some through the ordinary channels of justice, while the bolivian government has initiated four liability lawsuits

The former president tried to kill himself in mid-August, in full deterioration of his state of health, denounced his close entourage.

Áñez’s imprisonment was marked by his state of health and his insistent demand for procedural compensation.

The director of the penitentiary regime of La Paz, Franz Laura, reported in September that Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez sentenced to three days without a visit for failing to attend a virtual hearing.

Laura indicated that the sanction was imposed by “having hindered“The audience by not appearing without justification and assured that he had been informed, according to the Bolivian media The reason.

Áñez had asked not to attend the hearing because he was not feeling well for health reasons, although a review concluded that the former president was “stable” and could attend the meeting.

Thus, the sanction, pronounced by the director of the prison of Miraflores, Maribel Barrenechea Zambrana, will start this wednesday, although access to the former president’s lawyers and doctors will be allowed.

For its part, Áñez’s defense lamented that “the stable term is comfortable to validate all kinds of abuse.” “You never really realize that (the former president) is in good health”, noted.

(With information from Europa Press)

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