Correa Defense ensures that the process against him is full of irregularities

The Ecuadorian Exmandatario is not going through his best days. The troubles of justice led him to report to the consulate of Ecuador in Brussels. Correa badured at all times that it was a political persecution directed against him by President Lenin Moreno.

The lawyer Christophe Marchand, defender in Belgium of the former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, badured today that the trial for "the Balda affair" to which he is facing in his country and for which his imprisonment has been asked "If he (Correa) says' I want to go to Ecuador ', I tell him' you are not obliged to Go to Ecuador because there is a very big risk that being jailed for many years to eliminate it from politics, "said in an interview with Efe Marchand, who appreciates" a systematization of criminal actions against former leaders "in many countries of Latin America. [19659005] Correa faces a request for preventive detention in his country, ordered Monday by Judge Daniella Camacho, that at a request to Interpol to locate him and extradite him.On June 18, Camacho orders the comparuti one of Correa every two weeks, from Monday, before the Secretariat of the National Court of Justice as a precautionary measure after being linked to the case of attempted kidnapping of the l & # 39; ex-legislator Fernando Balda

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However, Correa chose to appear before the Ecuadorian consulate in Brussels, protected, according to his lawyers, by diplomatic regulations. "At this moment, in my opinion, there is nothing in force in Belgium to be put under arrest", said Marchand, adding that the arrest warrant "could be in road ", although " there could be calls that can be presented in Ecuador and that they can stop the request a little. "

In Marchand's opinion, the judge ordered Correa to appear in court every fortnight when he resides "thousands of kilometers" it is "an impossible condition, it can not be fulfilled".

"This means that, ultimately, I did not want that to happen," said the lawyer.

According to the lawyer, Correa, who lives in Belgium for family reasons since last year, did not respect this order because "it seems to me, when Now that it is a road full of illegalities, that the first idea was that he was not complying to be able to take this detention measure. "

Marchand, who insured that his client "had a lot of courage to fight" but "he is very sad what he sees," In Ecuador and throughout Latin America, there seems to be some problems of political persecution against former leaders, "he explained.He stressed that" the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has reported structural problems. "Asked he trusted the Ecuadorian state, the lawyer replied: "In my opinion, right now, no."

He alluded to the "problem of immunity of a che f of the state "which was refused to Correa. "It seems to me that an illegality in Ecuador is flagrant, we are afraid that if (Correa) goes to Ecuador, he will not benefit from a trial with the necessary guarantees," Marchand said.

He explained that the Ecuadorian state must send Interpol is a "red alert" for the arrest of Correa which must be examined to verify "if there is no problems of the type of political persecution "at first glance. If the institution comes to the conclusion that there is, the process can be "stopped abruptly", affected, while in the event that the petition continues, it will enter the system Interpol and will result in an arrest warrant in all countries of the world

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Rafel Correa, for its part, badured today, in interview to W radio: "Any reasonable mind knows that it is a total ridicule." I believe that any honest person knows that it is a vulgar persecution. Let's see if Interpol and Belgium They listen. "

In the case of Belgium, the prosecution will have to stop or impose" precautionary measures, such as the prohibition to leave the country, while the judge rules on the application, " explained the lawyer.From this moment, there will be a hearing in the Council Chamber with the possibility of appealing and reaching the Supreme Court of Belgium.

"We do not are not in the Euroorder system (European arrest warrant). Nineteenth-century extradition convention between Ecuador and Belgium, "said Marchand, who acknowledged that the process" could take a long time "and entail the sending of documents with official translations

And, he said, the State Council, the European Court of Human Rights, can be called .There are many resources because extradition , surrender, is the exception. "