Correa denounced a "conspiracy" by the Government of Ecuador after his arrest warrant

Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the arrest warrant issued by the Ecuadorian judicial system "intrigue" of the current Ecuadorian government against him and badured that Interpol would reject the petition in an interview with AFP on Wednesday.

"There is a whole road map (…) There is a plot" Correa said in Brussels, a day after the Ecuadorian justice ordered his pre-trial detention and issued a circular of 39; Interpol against him for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of the opponent Fernando Balda in Colombia in 2012.

"They bind me to a case without any evidence, based on the testimony of a policeman who spent seven hours the day before with the prosecutor to learn the lesson, saying that the President called to ask him to abduct Balda "defended the president of Ecuador between 2007 and 2017.

For Correa, who currently resides in Belgium with his family lia, the "government" of his successor, Lenin Moreno, is "undoubtedly" at the origin of this plan. "He is behind all this, of the judiciarization of politics", added.

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The former socialist president denounced that Moreno " met Balda, met the former prosecutor to imprison Jorge Glas [vicepresidente con Correa] " and that " government delegates " tried to put pressure on" key people "" to They are testifying against him.

The red Interpol circular "will have no success" since this organization of international police cooperation "takes its time, badyzes the file and d & # 39; Being a politician he rejects it " and " more political than that there is not ", added.

But, in case the demand would prosper, Correa Believed that Belgium, where he did not exclude asking for asylum, "never" would treat "a barbarian like that. "" Never will such a guaranteed country (…) lead to extradition or unjust injustice. "

And, regarding a possible return to Ecuador, he told us badured to return "it would be almost a suicide in the current conditions". "If he was single, he would do it", pointed out the former president, recalling that when he left his post, he promised his family several years of residence in Belgium, from where his wife is from.