The Attorney General of nation, Eduardo Montealegre Lynett, installed 3rd Forum of analysis of the Criminal Oral accusatory system which takes place in San Andres and which runs until Saturday, February 1.
During the opening ceremony the chief of the accusing entity referred to the progress and major changes that had the law and the criminal investigation, which is transferred from an old and outdated to a modern system, where such research is mainly based on contexts reconstruction, in prioritizing cases, investigating organizations and not individual cases, taking research through the double imputation own criteria of international criminal law.
In this regard he said “we see then gradually in recent years have gone I constitutionalising or raising a legal level such important categories as the concept of prioritization, the concept of selectivity in transitional justice, the need to investigate across contexts such as in the inter-American human rights system and other international tribunals”.
Prosecutor Montealegre said that the seminar objective is to make an analysis of how it will be applied both in the Prosecutor’s Office and the Colombian Justice in such transformations and it is important to continue with the balance of what has been a decade of momentum of the Oral accusatory Penal System in Colombia.
High official stressed that in the last ten years “occurred at the constitutional level the most important transformation in the history of the criminal process in Colombia, as it was the rotation and the abandonment of a written inquisitorial system, towards a modern adversarial system of trial that also reflects the major trends that have been projected in recent years in Latin America”; as countries of the continent turned in the same direction and pointed to an accusatory system.
Also stated that the accusatory system involves “giant steps in the modernization of our research,” because it has proven to be an efficient system to combat big criminal organizations, crime, in , which should go forward because it has basically been a contribution of the Colombian institutions and the Colombian law to the democratization of the society, in terms of protection of fundamental rights, protection of modern guarantees protecting freedom of speech and in terms of democracy.
“We left 10 years ago an inquisitive, ancient, old system unresponsive to modern society, which did not respond to the evolution of the theory of rights worldwide to advance by leaps and bounds toward a system of ordinary law constitutionalization (… ) these simplistic solutions, those solutions that do not correspond to reality or that correspond to the evolution of modern history, want to solve simple problems and simple way of reviving the Colombian justice repealed codes is not the solution to the Colombian criminal justice and to our country, “stated Attorney General.
He concluded that we must move forward in the model of a modern accusatory system and is ultimately the focus of the seminar.