Threats and judge rumors inflame net
Social networks in Panama were aflame with rumors, threats, and comments about the existence of a supposed compromising recording that could be used against the interim president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Hernán De León.
Meanwhile, spokesmen and close friends of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, who is facing trial for alleged illegal eavesdropping, threatened journalists and lawyers who have expressed unfavorable opinions about the Martinelli case, and the alleged blackmail against De León. reports La Prensa
As part of the wiretap case, Martinelli’s governor’s lawyers filed an Amparo so that the Court declines the hearing. That presentation is in the hands of has the magistrate, Oydén Ortega.
Attorneys and official spokespersons of Martinelli began a campaign – also in social networks – of threats against social communicators, politicians, and activists who speak about the judicial situation of the ex-ruler.
For example, Martinelli’s spokesman, Luis Eduardo Camacho, accused Annette Planells, of the Independent Movement (Movin), of being a “free” enemy of Martinelli and issued a thinly veiled threat: “I hope Mrs. Planells has proof of the alleged extortion [against the magistrate]; since I will pass this tweet to the lawyers, to proceed as requested by the client [sic]” reports La Prensa.
In the messages, there is talk of possible blackmail against the interim president of the Court, for him
to “knock down” the wiretapping case Martinelli, in his last appearance in court said some things that have helped to heat the environment. He indicated, for example, that his “process is political, and will resolve politically, “without describing how his case would be “politically “solved. Then he added that ” when this process starts, I want it to be quick, my revelations will be devastating … “
He also said that “everything [his judicial process] has been invented, manufactured by officials of the State, and worse, they let themselves buy a lot of gossips… For example, there is a State institution that they all tap. ” Martinelli did not reveal anything else: he did not say which institution was tapped or how he came to know,
Almost simultaneously, in a handwritten letter, he asked his ally the deputy Manuel Fanovich to take control of the National Assembly
National and judge Jerónimo Mejía the judge of guarantees of his case, and Martinelli told his lawyer Alma Cortés to sue Rodrigo Noriega, a lawyer, who has made legal analyzes published in La Prensa about the Martinelli case.
The former president also demanded last week to sue the director of El Renacer, Abel Price, whom he accuses of having him kidnapped, so he has asked his lawyers to sue “for exceeding functions, abuse of authority and attempted murder, torture psychological, violation of human rights, in compromise with the minister [of the Government] Carlos Rubio, who will be sued civilly and criminally for $5 million each.
Another threatened was the journalist Alfonso Grimaldo, this time by the lawyer Alejandro Pérez, close to Martinelli’s defense team, who wrote to him on Twitter: “Get ready Grimaldo We already have all your data and false accounts.”
