SANTO DOMINGO, RD - The General Directorate of Prosecution of the Public Ministry and the National District Prosecutor's Office filed an appeal , against the decision of Judge Fátima Veloz, who in the early hours of this month of June released the siblings Antonio and Maribel Espaillat , charged for the collapse of the roof of the Jet Set Club nightclub that occurred on April 8 and left 236 people dead and more than 180 injured.
In presenting the appeal to the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District, prosecutor Emmanuel Ramírez, assigned to the General Directorate of Prosecution, stated that, as Deputy Prosecutor Wilson Camacho had previously indicated, the investigators in the case reject the measure imposed by the judge because it is not proportional to the alleged facts and because it ignores the fact that the justice system must prevent the defendants from intimidating witnesses in the case.
Following the filing of the appeal, Emmanuel Ramírez explained that it is now up to the National District Court of Appeals to assign a courtroom. This court will hear the appeal filed by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the hundreds of plaintiffs who also reject the judicial decision.
On Thursday the 26th of this month, lawyer Ayer, the lawyer for 30 plaintiffs, Félix Portes Núñez , filed the appeal also challenging the decision that ordered the release of the Espaillat brothers.
The petition requests that the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals take cognizance of the appeal, revoke the coercive measures issued against the Espaillat brothers, and order their preventive detention
Portes Núñez questioned the judge's assertion that she cannot assume as true a punishable conduct attributed to the defendants, after pointing out that this statement ignores the nature of eventual intent.
