Interpol on the Edmundo González case: Any use of our system for political reasons is prohibited

Interpol recalled this Friday that the rules of the international police agency prohibit its mechanisms from being used for political reasons and did not want to comment on the demand received from Venezuela for it to be launched a “red alert” against the leader of the opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia.

Asked this Friday about that request from the Attorney General of Venezuela on October 24 against González Urrutia, which the newspaper reported Colombia Weather, An Interpol spokesperson responded to EFE that he could not comment on “individual cases.”

However, the spokesperson also added that Article 3 of the organization’s constitution “prohibits any use of our system for political reasons.”

The attorney general of Venezuela asked Interpol to issue a “red alert” against Nicolás Maduro’s rival in the Venezuelan presidential elections on July 28, who has been in exile in Spain since the beginning of September after an agreement with the government. from Venezuela at the Spanish embassy and leave Caracas.

According to the information published The Time, The request is made for the crimes of conspiracy, identity theft, and forging documents.

The newspaper states that the crimes that the Venezuelan justice accuses González of are usurpation of functions, forging of a public document, instigation to disobedience of the laws, conspiracy, ignorance of State institutions, complicity in the use of violent acts against the peace, dissemination of false information without knowing the electoral results, sabotage or damage to the system, association, money laundering.

The “red alert” system of the international police agency is a way of communicating information about people who are wanted by the Justice of a country to the rest of the members so that they can be detained if they are identified.

Some of these notifications are public and can be consulted on the Interpol website, but there are others that, for reasons of confidentiality or so that they can be more effective, only travel through the internal transmission channels to which the police services of Interpol have access. the 196 member countries.

The organization subjects the demands that come to it from the authorities of those countries to a filter, in particular to detect those that may conceal some type of political persecution or human rights violations.