Santa Cruz case: the Office of the Prosecutor provided new evidence that it violated the ban on leaving the country

Judicial sources confirmed that the prosecutor's office had today presented new evidence to certify that Rocío Santa Cruz – sentenced to 4 years in prison for culpable homicide – had left the country last December, in violation its prohibition to do so. In this regard, her husband said that they were making presentations to the judge because he felt that the procedure conducted last Friday and for which Santa Cruz was being held is "tainted with nullities".

Claudio Ferreyra, lawyer and husband of Rocío Santa Cruz.

The prosecutor's office today presented documents sent by the General Directorate of Migration of the Ministry of the Interior of Paraguay, which report the entry of Santa Cruz in that country by the post of José Falcón's migrants on 22 December and his release 4 days later. .

The figure sentenced as a pbadenger in transit at Silvio Petirossi airport, December 25, 2018.

Acting of what has happened since the news and arrest of Rocío Santa Cruz last Friday, her husband spoke on Radio Libertad and said that all that justice last few hours was an arbitrary measure and "without legal basis". He also noted that his wife was always right and that the sentence was suspended.

To this he added that the sentence that had sentenced his wife in November last year had been appealed to the Superior Court of Justice and that his detention "had no grounded solution". He also stated that even the defense of the accused was not informed of his arrest and that neither the prosecutor María Laura Álvarez nor the judge César Jiménez had jurisdiction over the crime imputed to him and Judge Ricardo Balor.

When asked if he and his wife had actually left the country last December, Ferreyra did not answer and said that this should be the subject of an investigation, but said that They were lawyers and knew the judicial system, reaffirming that they "were always right".

Meanwhile, Rocío Santa Cruz is still owned by the Posadas Women's Warden.

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