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QUITO-ECUADOR 23/01/2018 Fernando Balda is called by the prosecution to make statements about his kidnapping in Colombia where Rafael Correa would be involved. PHOTOS API / JUAN DIEGO MONTENEGRO
The former Ecuadorian Ambbadador Fernando Balda considers today that the order of preventive arrest against the former president Rafael Correa means that his country begins to "give justice" to the kidnapping he experienced in Colombia in 2012.
"Justice has been launched in an exemplary manner. been done in the administration of justice in the case of my kidnapping " Balda told the media at the end of the hearing in which the National Court of Justice (CNJ) of Ecuador ] Imposed preventive arrest in Correa
The measure was decided by Judge Daniella Camacho after the exmandatario ignored his injunction to appear in court every two weeks from July 2, and instead to the Ecuadorian consulate in Brussels, where Correa resides is last year.
For Balda, Correa's decision "not to attend the judge's appeal has made him a fugitive from justice today" and what "happened is a consequence of the acts of the Former president. "
" First committed a criminal offense such as kidnapping in a transanational manner and second failed to measure issued by a competent judge " , added. Today, it has approved the request of the Ecuadorian Attorney General to ask Interpol to locate the former president, his capture and extradition with "red broadcast".
Balda declared his attempted kidnapping, frustrated by the Colombian police through a call from a taxi driver who saw how he was boarded in a vehicle force, it's "a crime very serious "," a crime of state ".
"We have received this moment with great maturity, and as we have announced, there must be justice for all the crimes of the State committed during the correísmo"
Correa ruled Ecuador between 2007 and 2017 and during his government years he divided the country with policies and laws that the opposition qualifies as repressive.
Balda badured that he will not "rest" and that his case is "only the first" of those who will be open against Correa, because On the possibility that the Exmandatario asks political asylum in Belgium or in another country, he claimed that it was "the right of the former president", but announced that he would launch an international campaign to convince to these governments that there is no political persecution, as Correa claims.
"I will initiate an activism first in the European embbadies based in Ecuador starting with Bélé Gica, I will go with my lawyers to present the evidence, so that they can verify that it is not a political persecution but a serious state crime " he concluded. EFE [19659012]
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