Former President Rafael Correa ensures the arrest warrant "is a conspiracy"

From Brussels, Belgium, the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, described the arrest warrant issued by Ecuadorian justice against him as a "plot" of the current Ecuadorian government and badured that Interpol would reject the petition.

"There is a whole road map (…) There is a whole plot," said Correa in an interview with AFP in Brussels, a day after Ecuadorian justice ordered its Preventive detention and issued a circular of Interpol against him. his alleged involvement in the abduction of opposition Fernando Balda in Colombia in 2012.

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

For Correa, who currently resides in Belgium with his family, the "government" of his successor, Lenin Moreno, is "undoubtedly" behind this plan.

"He is behind all this, the judiciarization of politics," he added. The former socialist president complained that Moreno "met Balda, met with the former prosecutor to imprison Jorge Glas (vice president with Correa)" and that "government delegates" tried to put pressure on "keys" to testify in their against.

In addition, he badured that the red circular to Interpol "will have no success", since this international police cooperation organization "takes time, badyzes the case and be a politician rejects it" and "more policy that this is not there ".

But in the event of a successful demand, Correa felt that Belgium, where he did not exclude asylum, "would never treat" such barbarism ".

" Never such a guaranteed country … will not give way to extradition or an injustice. "

And about a possible return to Ecuador, he badured that the return" would be almost a suicide under current conditions "

" If I were single I would do it, "said the former president, recalling that when he left his post, he promised his family several years of stay in Belgium, from where his wife is from.