Last Update: 7:30 pm, January 25, 2022
Main Points of the Day
- Important video evidence presented by the prosecution and the defense was shown today in court. An expert forensic witness described eight videos that were submitted by the prosecution and also, played five videos presented by the defense attorneys.
- The prosecution’s video evidence contradicted witness testimony, showing that the car and the two containers were not lit on fire or damaged at the same time, and that none of the accused were seen as committing any criminal acts. In addition, the videos showed that the community members were not armed, again, directly contradicting the prosecution’s witnesses.
- The defense’s video evidence consisting of a recorded live broadcast and follow-up interviews by a local media outlet that was present the day of the incident. In the videos, the local journalist said several times as did the individuals interviewed, that the only people armed that day, were individuals working with or related to Inversiones Los Pinares.
- The videos were very touching and powerful. Through the interviews of young and old, it almost felt like the entire community of Guapinol was testifying in court about the importance of defending their water, the reasons they were present and maintaining an encampment on and before September 7, 2018, and the intentions of the mining company to provoke violence, division, conflict, and destruction.
- Tomorrow, the prosecution will likely finish presenting their evidence and the trial is convened for 9 am.
