The former vice president, who appeared this Thursday at the habeas corpus hearing via telematics from the La Roca maximum security prison, recounted what happened on the night of April 5, when the police entered the diplomatic headquarters even though that constituted a violation of the Vienna Convention.

They threw me against the wall, I hit my head, they kicked and kneed me in the hips, they stepped on my neck, said the former official who described the methods used as torture.

One of the masked men told me: “so you remember me” and dislocated my finger, Glas continued and said that they took photos and made videos “as if I were a trophy.”

The former vice president, who is currently on hunger strike, mentioned that his ribs were kicked and his thumbs were dislocated.

“Sooner rather than later justice will be done,” he said.

In the hearing, which continues at this time, lawyer Andrés Villegas, for the defense, requested that the capture be declared illegal and arbitrary and suggested as a measure of reparation that the transfer of the detainee be arranged to a consular office in Mexico or to the embassy of another country.

Meanwhile, the legal secretary of the presidency, Mishel Mancheno, and the Minister of Government, Mónica Palencia, justified the actions of the authorities before the the National Court of Justice.

Mancheno requested the denial of habeas corpus because Glas “has a corrupt past” and pointed out that “irregular asylum does not prevent an arrest warrant.”

The representative of the presidency rejected any attempt to blame the president, Daniel Noboa, who, according to what was reported in the hearing itself, was the one who gave the order to raid the Mexican embassy.

Minister Palencia, of Mexican and Ecuadorian nationality, gave an account of the legal accusations against Glas and added that she maintained antisocial behavior against the property of Ecuadorians.

“We could not say yes to impunity once again and we had to act,” said the owner.

The politician, a member of the Citizen Revolution movement, temporarily received the benefit of pre-release on November 28, 2022, after the unification of two prison sentences of six and eight years for the Odebrecht and Bribery cases; however, the measure was revoked.

At the beginning of this year, the justice system ordered the capture of the former official for alleged embezzlement in the case called Reconstruction of Manabí, which investigates embezzlement in public works after the 2016 earthquake.

Mexico granted him political asylum because it considered him persecuted and a victim of the so-called “lawfare”.

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