Lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río will leave the country after receiving strong threats and the hearing against former President Uribe is postponed

Due to threats against one of the lawyers representing the victims, hearings in the former president’s case will be suspended Alvaro Uribe accused of witness bribery and procedural fraud.

the lawyer Miguel Angel del Riorepresentative of Deyanira Gómez, doctor and ex-wife of the witness Juan Guillermo Monsalve, denounced having received serious threats against him and his family.

The threats began two weeks ago, but until February 14th they were specific and included members of the jurist’s family nucleus. Through a phone call, they told him that “They didn’t want to see him on screen this week, in clear allusion to the hearings of the former president which are taking place precisely this week.”

Of the river should start his speech tomorrow, but last night he asked the judge 41 penal circuitDr Laura Barrera Coronado, who is presiding over the hearings, to postpone her participation until next Monday, February 20, as she will be leaving the country.

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