After five days in preliminary hearing, to the 1:15 of the dawn of this Wednesday the judge who takes the cause of Carlos Chancellor ratified the privative one of freedom for the mayor. More than six hours one took to the deliberation with the presence of the accusing parts and the defense. Alicia Hernandez, one of the defense counsels, indicated indignation and shame when counting how magistrate Ely Rondón admitted that “he was declared incompetent by the mental fatigue of the day”.

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Photo William Urdaneta

Indignation and rage showed Alicia Hernandez, defender of Chancellor

With the measurement, the preliminary hearing waited for by Chancellor during two years occurred by finished. The decision implies that the defendant will have to be judged under prison in a judgment that, according to the parts, will be vitiated.

The preliminary hearing began Thursday 16 of January and took five days until giving the decision. Alicia Hernandez, one of the lawyers of the mayor, counted like the judge who takes the cause - Ely Rondón- in the heat of admitted session that was outside its mental capacities to spin a decision.

Also it was known that to the four miners accused along with Chancellor the regime of presentation in freedom did not modify to them.

Staggered justice
Hernandez insisted at least when indicating that the 13 crimes that are imputed the mayor to him are all prescribed and, in half of them, was no imputation. He described as “circus” to all the Judicial Power of the country and showed that they will continue fighting with the head in stop until justice becomes.

“This is an aberration, all the crimes are prescribed in its totality. The judge in the heat of hearing said that she was not in mental conditions to spin a decision… How it is possible that the principles of the right are violated? ”, the lawyer asked itself.

On the other hand, Carmen de Chancellor expressed with tears in the eyes its indignation. “This is not going away to be thus, the town of Sifontes will go to the instances that are, this is an injustice… is people in the street that is killing and never it has been imprisoned, how they apply the law for a man like Carlos that the unique thing that has done is to fight by its town”.

The past Thursday a special hearing asked for by the Office of the public prosecutor Second of the Public Ministry was celebrated; the hearing did not take to anything and that day the defenders of the mayor of Sifontes showed that everything was a whim of the accusing part.

On the following day, the preliminary hearing began that was delayed again for this Monday when the imputed ones began to give their versions. This Tuesday all the case acted the defense exposing, approximately to the 6:00 of afternoon the situation became tenser by the silence of the Public Ministry.

The judge had three scenes in which she had to decide: the total freedom, privative of freedom or the regime of presentation. The defending parts considered throughout yesterday that more just it would be the total freedom.

The black box of Sifontes

The case of mayor Carlos Chancellor is a mystery for many but others assume - with total security that all the exposition of apprehension of sifonteño, is only for political reasons.

Chancellor has been lengthy in the jails of Patrol crafts of Caroní from May of 2006, turning for the date almost three years in prison without one first hearing, violating the had process contemplated in the Constitution of the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela.

For the regional elections of the 23 of November of 2008 his position severely it was questioned, when not being disqualified Consejo Nacional Electoral politically (CNE) allowed that the defendant appeared like candidate to the Mayorship of Sifontes, the one that won with more of 60% of the votes.