The Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, confirmed the presentation of the appeal by public bodies. | Photo: Twitter @BolivianDaily
La Paz, January 4 (RHC)-- The Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Government and the Bolivian Attorney General's Office filed an appeal on Tuesday with the aim of requesting the extension of the preventive detention of the governor of Santa Cruz, the right-wing Luis Fernando Camacho from four to six months in prison.
The Bolivian Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, confirmed the presentation of the appeal by the public bodies of the State, while he informed that the accused in the case of Coup d'Etat I also presented an appeal for the precautionary measures against him to be lifted.
In this sense, the head of the portfolio said that "Mr. Camacho -through his defense- has filed an appeal (...) surely today will be drawn to one of the criminal chambers of the Departmental Court of La Paz."
From the restart of activities with the inauguration of the Judicial Year 2023, it is expected that in the coming hours the Departmental Court of Justice of La Paz will draw lots for the room where the requested appeals will be analyzed.
After being apprehended last December 28 as a result of a prosecutor's order, Camacho was transferred to the Chonchocoro prison for four months of preventive detention before the imputation of links with the violent events that took place in 2019.
Accordingly, the Deputy Minister of Communication, Gabriela Alcón, pointed out that this situation is intended to be politicized, meanwhile, she warned that "precisely, through violence, through vandalism, they want to reach impunity for what happened in 2019."
For his part, the presidential spokesman, Jorge Richter, assured that Camacho's life "is guaranteed; he is protected, cared for and attended as any other prisoner."
