A Peruvian court granted credit, through a resolution it made public, to conspiracy theories related to covid-19.
Specifically, it was said that the pandemic was an invention of the “global criminal elites” made up, according to court magistrates, of influential billionaires.
It should be clarified that the claim was contained in a case that had nothing to do with coronavirus problems.
This is the story.
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Sentence
The Criminal Court of Appeal in the provinces of Chincha and Pisco (Peru) has ruled that the pandemic is “unpredictable”, except for its creators. “who have managed it and continue to direct it with extreme secrecy in their global environments and corporations“.
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The statement of this collegiate court of the Superior Court of Justice of the Ica department, made up of Judges Tito Gallegos, Luis Leguía and Tony Changaray, was given to try to apologize for the delay in participating in the appeal of a defendant who asked to cancel his detention preventive (provisional), but whose request had not been resolved due to the pandemic.
“No world government, natural or legal persons or the defendant’s defense can claim that this pandemic is ‘predictable’.” except for the creators of the new world order, such as Bill Gates, Soros, Rockefeller, among others“, it was stated in the resolution, published in the Peruvian portal specialized in the subject” LP Law “.
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Conspiracy theory
George Soros, the other millionaire pointed out by Peruvian magistrates.
By ensuring that the coronavirus was “created by the criminal elites who rule the world“, The Superior Chamber of Criminal Appeal of Chincha and Pisco echoed one of the many conspiracy theories that emerged last year as a result of the pandemic.
Specifically, the document cites financial investor George Soros, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the billionaire of the Rockefeller family, whom he accuses of “managing” and “continuing to direct” the virus in the “new world order”.
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With the advent of covid-19, the amount of misinformation increased and, despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in May that the virus was of animal origin and denied its creation in a laboratory, they continued to circulate. presumed alternative origins.
For a long time, these theories fueled by “fake news” included speeches about their creation by pharmaceutical companies eager to increase their economic benefits and even a conspiracy by Bill Gates or Soros as promoters of an alleged population control plan through vaccines and 5G.
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Judges’ investigation
The coronavirus was declared a pandemic in March 2020.
After the contents of the court order were disclosed to the public, the Decentralized Office for the Control of Magistracy (Odecma) in Ica opened a preliminary investigation of the magistrates who signed that resolution.
The aim of the investigation is to gather the elements that help to determine the existence of alleged irregularities committed by judges..
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