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Complaint in Spain against the left-wing presidential candidate in Colombia

2022-05-30T15:19:48.817Z


A Spanish court has agreed to examine a complaint against the left-wing candidate for the presidential election in Colombia, the ex-guerrilla Gustavo...


A Spanish court has agreed to hear a case against Colombia's left-wing presidential candidate, ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro, relating to the 1981 kidnapping of a famous TV presenter in Colombia, a- we learned Monday, May 30 from a judicial source.

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Gustavo Petro won the first round of the presidential election in Colombia on Sunday and has a good chance of becoming the first left-wing president in the country's recent history.

He will face in the second round on June 19 an independent candidate, the millionaire Rodolfo Hernandez.

According to a court document seen by AFP on Monday, a magistrate of the National Audience ruled that this Madrid high court could be competent to examine a complaint relating to the kidnapping of journalist Fernando Gonzalez Pacheco and therefore agreed to examine it. .

Proof of Spanish nationality

Born in Spain, Fernando Gonzalez Pacheco, journalist and host on Colombian television who died in 2014, was kidnapped in 1981 by the M-19, the guerrillas in which Gustavo Petro was active.

He was released after a few days.

This court decision is only a very preliminary step.

According to the magistrate, it will be necessary in particular to prove that Fernando Gonzalez Pacheco had Spanish nationality at the time of the facts and that his relatives are complaining so that the procedure can continue.

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The complaint was filed in March by François Roger Cavard, a lawyer who unsuccessfully tried to have Gustavo Petro's candidacy canceled, claiming that he had not benefited from the amnesty for crimes committed by the M-19 , who laid down his arms in 1990. In his complaint before the National Audience, Cavard accuses Petro of crimes against humanity and of having been "

one of the highest officials

" of M-19.

The Spanish public prosecutor's office, which considers that Spanish justice does not have jurisdiction to examine this complaint, had asked for its classification before the judge agreed to examine it.

Source: lefigaro

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