Prosecutor Francis Valerio said on Tuesday that Sánchez Ramírez’s provincial deputy, Sadoky Duarte, is protecting a “Recognized criminal” nicknamed “Facobra” when entering a National Police operation and physically assaulting police officer Disleidy Heredia Figueroa.
According to the prosecutor, “Facobra” has an arrest warrant for the Gender Violence Unit, and is being investigated by the Public Ministry for sale and trafficking of drugs and controlled substances.
Valerio recounted the situation in which the deputy showed an “aggressive attitude” and insisted that the authorities release three people who were detained in a van for “provoking certain situations”.
The incident took place around 6:45 pm in the municipality of Cotuí, Sánchez Ramírez province, where police officers commanded by Colonel De la Cruz carried out a surveillance operation to confirm compliance with the decree. 628-2020.
The prosecutor noted that when they were near the house of the deputy Duarte, they noticed that there were five people with a “suspicious” profile, Which they ran as soon as the authorities ordered the stop of a Chevrolet car in which one of the individuals had thrown an unknown object.
“We stopped to search the vehicle. One of the men threw an unknown object into the vehicle, lacquered it and fled. They slipped through the neighborhood of a house, I followed them because I had no warrant to search the houseHe said.
The prosecutor indicated that the legislator appeared when the car was confiscated and realized that there were three people detained, so He asked police to “get those people out of the van.”.
Faced with this request from Duarte, The prosecutor replied: “Deputy, we can’t take him out now, go to the police right now and we’ll talk about it there.”.
“(…) He insulted me, he was on top of me and Colonel De la Cruz intervened and managed to avoid the attack he was going to provoke on me,” Valerio said.
The magistrate explained that a few minutes after the attack on the police officer, an unknown woman started throwing stones and bottles in the yard of the house, so they could not open the vehicle and were forced to leave the place.
However, the attack did not culminate in Padre Fantino Street in the Los Cajuiles sector, because, according to prosecutor Valerio an hour later, Deputy Duarte appeared at the National Police and threatened and insulted him for not “upsetting the boys” who were being held.
“He told me that he was going to see me with him, that he would make a report for me to cancel and move me from here, that he is a deputy elected by the people by votes and I am a prosecutor,” he added. Valerio.
Deputy situation
When asked what legal action will be taken against the legislator, Valerio pointed out that As a Member of Parliament, Duarte has the privilege of jurisdiction, However, the deputy lodged a complaint which will be processed for the appropriate purposes.
Likewise, the rank of the National Police which was attacked by a blow to the face, Disleidy Heredia Figueroa, filed an official complaint against MP Duarte on Monday.
On the other hand Jose Ignacio Paliza, The administrative minister of the presidency, said that will present Duarte’s expulsion from the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).
“I will submit the expulsion of Sadoki Duarte, a member of the National Congress, who yesterday attacked a young PN corporal while performing his duties at night. This company needs examples “, Paliza published through her Twitter account.