MP asks the PNC to reinforce the security of the CC to avoid attacks against its magistrates

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June 29, 2026June 29, 2026By Mario Vásquez
MP asks the PNC to reinforce the security of the CC to avoid attacks against its magistrates

The Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes Against Justice Operators of the Public Ministry (MP) asked the authorities to improve the security scheme of the Constitutional Court (CC), given a message that calls for violence against magistrates.

The letter sent by the prosecutor’s office to the Director of the National Civil Police (PNC) this June 29 reiterates a previous communication, where it is requested to appoint police agents to guard the CC building.

“This request is based on the fact that, in open sources of information, a video is circulating in which a male person incites the population to organize to attack the integrity of said magistrates, their family nucleus and against the infrastructure of the building occupied by the CC,” the document explains.

These messages of intimidation come after the CC has received questions about resolutions surrounding the election of the rector of the USAC, while it still has some appeals pending resolution.

The MP also sent a letter to the presiding judge, Annabella Morfín, asking her to issue the necessary instructions to “immediately reinforce the security scheme assigned to the magistrates of the CC.”

Detailing in this letter that the measure must be in favor of the five titular magistrates of the CC, adding as a reason the video that calls for an attack against the constitutional magistrates.

Condemns intimidation

Through a statement, the CC condemned the acts of public intimidation against the judges, indicating that “the resolutions of this court are the product of the independent exercise of the jurisdictional function,” the document states.

In the letter sent by the MP to the president of the CC it is mentioned that security measures must be reinforced in favor of the five holders: Annabella Morfín; Astrid Lemus; Roberto Molina Barreto; Dina Ochoa and Julia Rivera.

But in the statement the CC only mentions judges Molina Barreto, Ochoa and Rivera, explaining that the necessary measures were taken to reinforce the security of the judges.

“The CC makes a firm call to all sectors of Guatemalan society to respect the rule of law, judicial independence and physical integrity of those who exercise jurisdictional functions,” the statement highlights.

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