The Attorney General’s Office (FGN) announced the creation of a new Homicide Prosecutor’s Office – being the fourth in the Uruguay -, and they assured that in the coming months information about a new shift will be given.
As reported by the Communication Directorate of the Prosecutor’s Office The fourth homicide shift will mean that these specialized prosecutors’ offices will have weekly shifts, as well as being available on weekends.
Until now, the prosecutors They had a shift every ten days and did not work on weekends, when prosecutors do. Flagrancy.
On the other hand, the new prosecutor’s office will be in charge of homicide cases, but specializing in femicides, cases that until now were treated by the Domestic Violence Prosecutor’s Offices.
Meanwhile, two new prosecutor’s offices will also be created for cases of sexual crimes and a third for cases of Teenagers in the city of Montevideo.
For her part, the surrogate court prosecutor, Monica Ferrerodetermined that the cases of international arms trafficking will be treated by the FNarcotics prosecutors 1st shift and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th shifts.
The Attorney General’s Office in the eye of Parliament
At the beginning of January of this year, we could see the problems that the Attorney General’s Office due to the already prolonged lack of appointment of a Court prosecutor, added to the health breakdown that the surrogate court prosecutor, Juan Gómezthey divided the waters again in the Parliament between the ruling party and the opposition.
After the news became known that the health of Gomezwho is admitted to the American Sanatorium, will require care for “several months”, voices have once again appeared from the ruling party calling for his resignation.
The Multicolor Coalition removed support from Gomez at the beginning of last year, after he decided to transfer prosecutor Gabriela Fossati and relegate her from the investigation into the case of Alejandro Astesianoformer presidential custodian of Luis Lacalle Pou. The government had perceived the decision as a way of giving in to the pressures of the opposition regarding the Astesiano case.
Gomez acts as interim court prosecutor since the resignation of Jorge Diaz in October 2021, now being subrogated by the prosecutor Monica Ferrerowho does have the support of the government alliance.
The nationalist senator Luis Alberto Heber publicly declared through his X account (formerly Twitter) his favoritism for Ferrero to be appointed court prosecutor, since she is an “enemy of drug trafficking.” About this, she also a member of the National Party (PN), Senator Graciela Bianchicelebrated that the issue of the Prosecutor’s Office is once again in the debate, but asserted that social networks “were not the place” for it.
In another message, Bianchi He indicated that “someday it will be understood that we do not have the necessary majorities, neither the ruling party, nor the opposition” to resolve the issue unilaterally, and that “governing with republican sensibility is not as easy as it seems from a social network.”
Source: Ambito
