Colombian ex-military Mario Antonio Palacios will be declared “not guilty” of two charges related to the murder of haitian president Jovenel Moisewhich occurred last July in Haiti, reported this Friday to Eph his lawyer, Alfredo Izaguirre.
Palacios, 43, and his lawyer attended a court today in Miami in which they asked to postpone the formal reading of the two charges he faces for another month: conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States and providing material support resulting in death.
The court agreed and the hearing was scheduled for March 4.
Izaguirre told Eph that he had previously requested an additional month of time because it has been difficult to meet with Palacios due to the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic and also due to the isolation in federal prisons due to gang fights.
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Palacios, detained in a federal prison for a month, is accused of the assassination of Haiti, for which the Haitian-Chilean Rodolphe Jaar is also arrested and charged in the US..
According to the United States Attorney’s Office, both are part of a group of about 20 Colombian citizens and other Haitian-Americans who “participated in a plot to kidnap or kill the Haitian president.”
From Jamaica, where he fled after the assassination, Palacios asked last October to speak “voluntarily” with the US authoritieswho later transferred him to Miami.
According to court documents, Palacios was hired to provide security and participate in an operation in which they were initially going to “arrest” the president.
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The Colombian explained that the entire operation was prepared in Haiti and that the idea was to “capture” the president at the airport and take him on a plane, but admitted that by at least July 6 he had been informed that the plans had changed to a murder.
The ex-military man faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted..
The indictment alleges that on July 7, Palacios and others entered the president’s residence in Haiti with the intent and purpose of assassinating him.
The South Florida Prosecutor’s Office has indicated that Palacios is accused of “a serious crime” and asked the judge to continue detaining the Colombian, considering him a “flight risk and danger to the community.” (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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