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For this Friday, January 13, starting at 08:30, the evaluation and preparatory hearing for the trial was convened against Juan EL, and Germy VZ, suspects in the murder of journalist Gerardo Delgado from Manabita, an event that occurred on August 10. of 2022.
Five months after the murder that shocked the country, this hearing is expected to be held on January 3, but in the absence of the defense lawyers for the two detainees it had to be suspended.
“Based on information from the prosecutor who is handling the case, it was indicated that the prosecutor’s investigation has already closed, this means that it is already going to the trial process, and the hearing for the preparation of the trial has already been indicated, and this was on the 3rd of January of this year, but two suspected defendants there changed lawyers and that is why they asked for another date to be set,” declared Carlos Teodoro Delgado, trustee of the National Union of Journalists, Manta nucleus.
Precisely the absence of the defense lawyers of the two suspects in the death of the communicator born in Pedernales, motivated Fernando Pico Lozano, judge of the Multicompetent Unit of Montecristi, to determine two actions.
Gerardo Delgado, the communicator murdered in Manta, told neighborhood stories and his popularity outlined him as a candidate for councilor
First, he asked to notify the Public Defender’s Office that lawyers be provided, and also to sanction with two basic salaries those who, until before the failed trial evaluation hearing on January 3, were the legal representatives of the two defendants.
Paul Panta, president of the UNP of Manta, a union of which Delgado was a part, pointed out that this fact cannot be forgotten, for which he asked for justice for the death of the director of the web media Hello Manta TV.
They would have offered to pay $2,000 for the murder of journalist Gerardo Delgado
“In 2022, three journalists were murdered in Ecuador, two of them in Manabí, for this reason we pay a posthumous tribute to those who offered their lives for the simple fact of reporting,” Panta declared.
Íngrid Bowen, widow of Delgado, clarified that she did not file a complaint after the death of the social communicator at the request of Gerardo’s mother, who said she feared that after filing a formal complaint, persecution or reprisal could be generated against the relatives of the murdered journalist.
“I have not filed the complaint at the request of my mother-in-law, Consuelo Olmedo, because it is normal for her as a mother to be afraid and fear the consequences that this may cause,” Bowen said. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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