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(Caracas, July 5. News24) .- The New York South District Attorney's Office announced Thursday that charges had been laid against the woman who had escalated the Statue of Libertad July 4 national holiday in the United States, to protest the separation of undocumented families on the Mexican border .
Identified as Thérèse Patricia Okoumou, a 44-year-old Congolese immigrant, the woman was arrested after spending four hours on the "feet" of the statue and charged with illegally entering a federal venue, to have a disorderly conduct and to interfere with the functions of a government agency.
In a statement, the prosecution today announced the three charges against Okoumou, each with a maximum sentence of six months in jail, for "resistance to the orders to go down, provoke the" 39; evacuation " from the island where the monument" And constitute a substantial danger "for agents.
Federal District Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, noted that the woman, who is appearing today in front of a federal court judge in Manhattan, " alarmed the public and put endangering his life and that of the police . "
" Although we must respect, and do, the rights of individuals to peaceful protest, this right does not extend to the violation of the law "and puts" at risk "to others, says Berman.
In the same note, the chief of police in charge of parks in the United States, Pamela Smith, estimated that the incident "caused the interruption of thousands of visitors on the US". one of the busiest of the year "at the Statue of Liberty.
Okoumou was yesterday with a group of forty protesters from the Rise and Resist organization who had deployed a banner at the base of the monument to ask for "the abolition" of the service of the Immigration and Customs (ICE), protesting against the "zero tolerance" policy of President Donald Trump.
At approximately 15:00 local time, the woman climbed the base of the statue until reaching about 60 feet tall and, according to sources from the security corps accessed through the NBC network, warned that he would not voluntarily go down until he released "all the children" who were separated from their undocumented parents
"His decision to mount the statue was taken independently ". "Consult" the other members, explained in a statement criticized the group, that despite "understand and share" their request, said "hope" that their legal defense agreed to release him under their "own recognition" of the facts.
Today at dawn, Rise and Resist acknowledged that these words had taken "involuntarily" to think that they were distancing themselves from the protester, who took about five months in the group and participates every week The group expressed its "unequivocal support" to Okoumou and stressed the concern for her safety, in case she fall and "as a woman of color about to be approached by it ". . the authorities ", as well as to find" the best "legal defense for it.
Photographs of Okoumo, wearing an anti-Trump shirt and sitting at the base of the statue with his legs crossed , were made viral on social networks where his name is on the list of "trendy subjects" because of the admiration messages.
With EFE information
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