On Monday morning, the Executive President of the International Corporation for the Defense of Citizens’ Rights, Veeduries and Mediation, Carlos Coloma, and lawyer Manuel Pérez filed a complaint for the crime of hatred against the president of the Confederation of Nationalities Indigenous of Ecuador (Conaie), Jaime Vargas.
Both claim that Vargas, last October 10 in the Agora of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, issued comments that not only psychologically and physically offended the President of the Republic, Lenín Moreno, who has a physical limitation of movement, but all people who have that same physical problem.
Jaime Vargas said the day in question: “Gentlemen of the National Police, the Armed Forces, join the people, do not comply with those orders of that traitor, liar, thief who has joined with Lasso and Nebot. To the Armed Forces, take that support from that crap duck! ”
For Pérez, the expressions issued by Jaime Vargas “offending a person with a disability should call us attention and meditation.” In his opinion, it cannot be allowed that “under the pretext of a social or political claim it is intended to offend people”.
Coloma criticized the Prosecutor for not having initiated an investigation ex officio for this obvious hate crime. “They (Prosecutor’s Office) as their own responsibility had to follow, investigate, obtain the videos and follow the criminal procedure.”
On Monday morning, the Executive President of the International Corporation for the Defense of Citizens’ Rights, Veeduries and Mediation, Carlos Coloma, and lawyer Manuel Pérez filed a complaint for the crime of hatred against the president of the Confederation of Nationalities Indigenous of Ecuador (Conaie), Jaime Vargas.
Both claim that Vargas, last October 10 in the Agora of the House of Ecuadorian Culture, issued comments that not only psychologically and physically offended the President of the Republic, Lenín Moreno, who has a physical limitation of movement, but all people who have that same physical problem.
Jaime Vargas said the day in question: “Gentlemen of the National Police, the Armed Forces, join the people, do not comply with those orders of that traitor, liar, thief who has joined with Lasso and Nebot. To the Armed Forces, take that support from that crap duck! ”
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For Pérez, the expressions issued by Jaime Vargas “offending a person with a disability should call us attention and meditation.” In his opinion, it cannot be allowed that “under the pretext of a social or political claim it is intended to offend people”.
Coloma criticized the Prosecutor for not having initiated an investigation ex officio for this obvious hate crime. “They (Prosecutor’s Office) as their own responsibility had to follow, investigate, obtain the videos and follow the criminal procedure.”
Citizens who filed the criminal complaint also criticized the Ombudsman’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office for not filing a formal complaint after the events occurred.
“It is time for citizens to present, not in favor of the President of the Republic, but in favor of all this vulnerable group of people that the State is called to defend,” Perez concluded.
Regarding his expressions, Vargas, through a letter of clarification, acknowledged that he made them with “iras”, after the death of brothers and sisters “of his bases. “If having used that language requires that I apologize, I accept it and I do it with all the people to whom this has offended in particular.”
Source: https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2019/10/21/nota/7569152/fiscalia-recibe-denuncia-contra- Chairman-conaie-delito-odio
