Panama, Jan 19 2012 (Prensa Latina) A request for the extradition of the terrorists of Cuban origin Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo, Pedro Remon and César Matamoros, and Panamanian Jose Hurtado, was filed on Thursday, said lawyer Silvio Guerra.
Those criminals tried to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the main hall of the University of Panama, where he was scheduled to speak at the end of an Ibero-American Summit. Hundreds of people would have died if they had succeeded.
In remarks to Prensa Latina, Guerra confirmed that they went today to the Fifth Court of the Criminal Circuit to file the official request of extradition of Posada Carriles and his accomplices and also request that the Foreign Ministry sends it to the US government.
That step has been possible because the Second Court confirmed the ruling of the Fifth Criminal Court through edict notifying eight years imprisonment for Posada Carriles and Jimenez; seven years for Novo Sampol, Remon and Matamoros and four years for Hurtado.
Such a court ruling, with an address by magistrate Secundino Mendieta, resolves the appeal filed by defense lawyers and plaintiffs in favor of the defendants. However, these sentences were not for possession of explosives to assassinate, an outstanding claim.
Guerra said he was aware that international extradition requests filed by Venezuela and Ecuador have also been registered and the United States has never agreed to them, but they will continue insisting.
The plaintiff, who appeared in the trial against the terrorists on behalf of student groups of the University of Panama, added that he is interested in registering the extradition request made by the Panamanian State on the grounds of its jurisdiction and through the Panamanian Foreign Ministry.
Guerra strongly criticized ex President Mireya Moscoso, who met this week with Posada Carriles in Miami, and wondered what can one expect from the person who pardoned people who were to perpetrate a massacre of her fellow country people, mainly students, at the main hall of the University of Panama.
Cubadebate: Solicita abogado panameño extradición de Posada Carriles y otros terroristas
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