Mexican lawyers presented this Sunday before the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) a criminal complaint against the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, and other authorities of that country for the violent invasion of the Mexican embassy in Quito, on April 5.
The criminal lawyers said that Noboa “must be investigated and punished” for ordering the raid on the diplomatic headquartersfor the violence exercised against embassy officials and for the deprivation of liberty and kidnapping of the former vice president Jorge Glas, who had been seeking asylum there since December.
Additionally, for the injuries and illegal detentions against Mexican officials, and the espionage and harassment against the diplomatic headquarters and for the damage that has been caused.
Raúl Armando Jiménez Vázquez, professor of International Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), pointed out, in a press conference, that the Prosecutor’s Office is competent to investigate the facts. allegedly illegal.
This, because the Federal Penal Code establishes that they are considered executed in national territory, crimes committed by Mexicans or foreigners in embassies and delegations from Mexico.
He added that the FGR is “equipped” to investigate, pursue, prosecute and punish those allegedly responsible for the crimes classified in the Federal Code and in the applicable instruments of Conventional International Law, “whether they are made in its territory or against its nationals.”
He explained that in the case of the conduct of the Minister of the Government of Ecuador, Mónica Palencia, who is Mexican by birth, the crime of treason may materialize, in addition to other crimes related to the illegal tapping of the telephones and communications of the Mexican Embassy, and harassment.
The complainants pointed out the existence of other possible crimes such as riot, international terrorism, criminal association, home invasion and assault, injuries, illegal deprivation of liberty and damage to other people’s property.
The litigants expressed confidence that the alleged crimes committed by Noboa and other authorities be sanctioned by the Mexican judicial system.
The complaint is presented two days before the International Court of Justice, the highest court of the United Nations (UN), begins to listen to the arguments of Mexico and Ecuador regarding the events of April 5.
The controversy between the two began after the Police raid on the Mexican Embassy to take away former Vice President Glas, who has been sheltered there since December, in the face of a corruption trial.
And it has grown because a court of Ecuador On April 12, he declared Glas’ detention inside the diplomatic headquarters as illegal and arbitrary, although he was imprisoned as he had yet to serve his sentence for the Bribery case and for illicit association in the Odebrecht case.
On April 15, Glas sent a letter to the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in which he asks for help and assures “He is in the worst prison in Ecuador” and who is on a “hunger strike.”
