12 66. On May 30, 2006 the common intervener requested an extension to present the expert reports through statement offered before notary public, in response to that requested in the Ruling issued by the President on May 24, 2006 (supra para. 65). Following the instructions of the President of the Court the extension requested was granted until June 21, 2006. 67. On May 2, 2006 Mr. Douglas Cassel, one of the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin, but not the common intervener, forwarded two briefs and their appendixes, through which it presented a request of provisional measures to the Court, with the object, inter alia, that “the State ensure that [there was] a prompt and adequate […] investigation of the robbery [suffered by Mrs. Madelein Valle Rivera].2” 68. On May 31, 2006 the President, in consultation with the judges, issued a Ruling through which it “dismiss[ed] the request of provisional measures presented by Mr. Douglass Cassel” due, inter alia, to the fact that it “consider[ed] that it was not […] prove[n] that there was a situation of extreme seriousness and urgency that call[ed] for the adoption of urgent measures in favor of Mrs. Madelein Valle Rivera, to avoid an irreparable damage to her rights.” 69. On June 1, 2006 the Commission requested an extension to present the expert report of Mr. Christopher Birkbeck through a statement offered before notary public, in response to that requested in the Ruling issued by the President on May 24, 2006 (supra para. 65). Following the President’s instructions the extension requested was granted until June 21, 2006. 70. On June 5, 2006 the Commission presented a brief, through which it communicated that “on May 31, 2006 Mr. Douglass Cassel […] ask[ed] the Commission to include him, Mrs. Sabina Astete, and Mr. Sean O´Brien, in the Commission’s delegation for the case.” Likewise, it requested that the Court “issue the measures consider[ed] necessary to guarantee the effective representation of all the [alleged] victims […].” 71. On June 6, 2006 the Secretariat, following the President’s instructions, asked the Commission to forward a copy of the brief through which Mr. Cassel made the request referred to in the Commission’s communication of June 5, 2006 (supra para. 70). 72. On June 7, 2006 the Commission presented a brief and it appendix, through which it forwarded copy of “the relevant parts of the request presented to the Commission on May 31, 2006 by [Mr.] Douglass Cassel,” in relation to the case (supra paras. 70 and 71). According to the appendix mentioned, on May 31, 2006 Mr. Douglass Cassel asked the Commission to appoint, pursuant to Article 69 of the Rules of Procedure and for the effect of he hearing that will be held before the Court on June 26 and 27, 2006, the petitioner Sabina Astete as a delegate of the Commission and the attorneys Douglass Cassel and Sean O´Brien as delegates or assistants. 73. On June 8, 2006 the common intervener forwarded copy of the written statements of the witnesses Michael Stephen Bronstein and Luis F. Jiménez (supra 2 Mrs. Madeleine Valle Rivera is an alleged victim of this case and through a Ruling of the President on May 24, 2006 she was requested to offer a statement through affidavit.