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The former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa described the arrest warrant issued by Ecuadorian justice as "conspiracy " of the current Ecuadorian government against him and assured that Interpol will reject the petition in an interview with AFP this Wednesday.
"There is a road map (…) There is a whole conspiracy", says Correa in Brussels, a day after the Ecuadorian justice ordered Preventive detention and issued a circular Red Interpol against him for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of the opponent Fernando Balda in Colombia in 2012.
" I am bound to a case without having no evidence, on the basis of testimony of a police officer who spent seven hours the day before with the prosecutor to learn the lesson He stated that the president l & # 39; 39, had 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, the" government "of his successor, Lenin Moreno, is "without a doubt" behind this plan. "He is behind all this, the judiciarization of politics," he added
The former socialist president denounced that Moren or " met Balda, met the former prosecutor to imprison Jorge Glas [vicepresidente con Correa] "and that" government delegates "tried to pressure" key "people to testify against him.
Interpol's red flyer "will not be successful", since this international organization of police cooperation "takes time, it analyzes the case and if it is a politician it rejects it" and "More political than that there is not," he added.
But, in the event of the demand flourishing, Correa believed that Belgium, did not exclude asking for asylum, "never" would treat "such barbarism". "Never a country so guarantor (…) will give rise to extradition or such an unfair mandate."
And, on a possible return to Ecuador, the return "would be almost a suicide in the current conditions". "If he was single, he would do it," said the former president, recalling that when he left his post, he promised his family several years of stay in Where his wife is from.
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