After EL TIEMPO announced that businessman Samuel Viñas had spent a year in prison, the reactions did not wait, and one of them was that of lawyer Edgardo Niebles, attorney for the family of the victim Clarena Acosta.
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That must be remembered Viñas was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the murder of Clarena, his wife, occurred on January 1, 2010, when the man operated his firearm three times and hit the woman’s integrity twice.
He has since been detained in El Bosque Prison in Barranquilla, but on February 7, 2020, he was placed under house arrest by the Fourth Tribunal for the execution of sentences for alleged that the prison was unable to deal with the health inmate to treat.
Despite the Vice President’s protests, despite having resorted to the Attorney General’s office and after filing a complaint about the judge’s unrepentant measure, the judges appear to have fallen asleep and placed the trial in a legal limbo that has not been resolved so far, ”said Niebles.
What you see are pure ‘puppy’ people, they see a badly parked one and the police immediately throw it out
Where has Viñas gone?
Since Samuel Viñas left prison, he arrived for a year in a luxurious apartment on the ninth floor of the Turquesa Real building, in the Villa Country neighborhood, in the northern historic center of the capital Atlántico.
Right, EL TIEMPO made a tour of this part of the city this Friday and a calm panorama was observed in it, with little traffic of vehicles and people, as is characteristic of stratum six.
“What you see are pure ‘puppy’ people, they see a badly parked one (someone who does not know the residents) and the police immediately kick him out,” one worker told this medium.
Villa Country sector, where Samuel Viñas went after leaving prison a year ago.
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Indeed, a patrol from the quadrant is constantly traveling through the area, but there is no special surveillance by Inpec or any other agency of the authorities in charge of surveillance.
The neighborhood consists of residential complexes with large balconies, extensive private lots, parks and business centers. Few people are seen on foot, most are in private vehicles.
He keeps the promise he made to Clarena during his lifetime that he would not pay a prison sentence for her death.
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They reject the situation
Lawyer Edgardo Niebles insisted that the suspect is abusing his contacts and power to get him out of prison, questioning the management of local and national justice in this case.
At this point, he is living up to the promise he made to Clarena while she was alive that he would not pay a prison sentence for her death. Given – logically, as EL TIEMPO says – to be a businessman of great economic power in Barranquilla, ”he assured.
On the last, Niebles pointed out that the lawyer Julio Ojito Palma, who served as a magistrate While in prison, Viñas is currently an adviser to the family and “certainly” advised him to secure the replacement of the sentence by the fourth judge.
With horror, we see one of these female killers enjoying … Freedom !, because (…) this rigidity is certainly not being met
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“With horror, we see that one such femicide is the enjoyment of freedom because with the way the prisoners in Barranquilla are viewed, it is certainly not filled with that rigidity that punishment must entailThe lawyer said.
The victim’s defender concluded that the pandemic exacerbated the situation, as – according to him – the conditions are not being adhered to and the page of the judicial branch is not working.
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