Yesterday, the Ministry of the Interior announced the increased security of Chief State Attorney Diana Salazar. This happened after the employee received a WhatsApp message early in the morning threatening her and her daughter’s life.

The fragility of the protection mechanisms for the woman who is the highest authority of the Prosecutor’s Office is incredible. No exaggeration when it comes to the safety of those handling cases that have landed dangerous criminals in prison.

The phone number of the prosecutor is not public, but she received threats. Interior Minister Juan Zapata confirmed that intelligence teams are working on lines of inquiry to find those responsible and confirm the authenticity of the video received on the mobile device.

There is an urgent need to establish responsibilities and arrest those behind the threats at the source. A citizen feels more helpless when even the highest authorities become victims of criminal organizations in any way. Psychological aggression also counts, regardless of whether the accuser continues with a pretense of normalcy.

Cases such as Mito 2012-2016, Odebrecht, Dhruv helicopters, the kidnapping of Fernando Balda, Caminito, Secom, Hospital Pedernales, Las Torres, Sinohydro, among others, are those in which the prosecutor was directly involved in the four years and two months of the exercise.

Currently, the Judicial Council (SV) and the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CCCCS) have expressed their intentions to monitor their governance, except that experts believe that it is in vain due to the absence of the National Assembly, a physical inspector.

Before the threat to her life, she claimed that they wanted to remove her from office so that ongoing cases would go unpunished. The situation requires extreme attention. Transparency is coming back into play and what the public expects is that every audit is done fairly and everyone’s lives are guaranteed. (OR)