New York, United States
Emma Coronel Aispuro’s legal defense denounced that the life of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán’s wife was in danger in prison.
This, after news reports emerged that would have been handed over to the authorities to collaborate as a protected witness in the case against and provide information about the Sinaloa Cartel.
In an interview with the NTN24 news channel, Mariel Colom, Colonel’s lawyer, said these press reports, citing unidentified agents, put her client at risk.
“It’s no secret what can happen to a person if others think or imagine that person is cooperating with the authorities, obviously they may end up dead“Columbus said in the middle.
“Not only the cooperator but members of his family and Mrs Coronil has two girls 9-year-olds who are now at risk for these actions. “
In addition, the lawyer accused that colonel, Who is being held in a prison in Virginia, was being mistreated, who “gets very cold” and was not allowed to bathe.
“This week he spent four days running without being able to bathe. He sleeps with the lights on, they are taken 24 hours a day,” Columbus explained.
“They don’t sell him bottled water, they just allow him to take water from the tap, but the water tastes so disgusting that the other day he tried to drink it made him nauseous and vomited it.”
Colonel Aispuro She was arrested on February 22 at Dulles Airport in Washington on charges of drug trafficking to the United States and participating in El Chapo Guzmán’s escape from the Altiplano prison in Almoloya. Juárez, State of Mexico, in 2015.
The drug trafficker’s wife is being held in a prison in Alexandria, Virginia, where she was remanded in custody.
SO HE SAID
“It’s no secret what can happen to a person if others think or imagine that person is cooperating with the authorities, they can obviously end up dead.”
Mariel Colom, Emma Coronel’s lawyer.