At least 37 people died in the so-called Senkata massacre, committed in 2019 in El Alto, when military forces repressed demonstrators who were protesting against Áñez near a fuel storage plant.
The First Criminal Court of Instruction of El Alto, in the department of La Paz, concluded that Áñez cannot have privileges, because did not assume the Presidency of Bolivia in 2019 through legal channels.
Nevertheless, the final decision is in the hands of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ)because the case is in the defense appeal stage.
It is “an arbitrary decision that does not coincide with the Political Constitution of the State, our Penal Code and current laws,” Guillén said in statements to local journalists.
“It is worth saying that through this way they have found a legal loophole to take a former president to a regular trial,” he added, according to the Sputnik news agency.
The lawyer claimed that “The resolution that was issued does not have a foundation in terms of the power of the judge to recognize that the former president is, or is not, a representative of the State”
“Nor does it resolve whether or not a trial of responsibilities would correspond, but in effect they directly provide it arbitrarily,” he added.
Áñez assumed the Presidency of Bolivia on November 12, 2019, in the midst of a political crisis, two days after President Evo Morales resigned as a result of a coup when pressured by police, military and civic organizations.
In June 2022, the court issued a sentence for the so-called Coup d’état case, sentencing Añez to 10 years in prison, which she is currently serving in the Miraflores women’s prison in La Paz.
In the second trial, which began in December of last year and promoted by the Vice Ministry of Justice and Fundamental Rights, the former de facto president would be prosecuted only for the deaths registered during her administration.
Source: Ambito
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