53 186. The Court verifies that Mayela León, in the affidavit she rendered,146 as well as in the statement rendered before the 20º Trial Court of Caracas147 gave a version of the facts that coincides with the version of the Commission. The video furnished by the Commission is part of the transmission of a Globovisión newscast, in which there appears a group of people without doing anything in particular; then, there is another group of people shouting with little percussion instruments and following, there appears Mayela León and Jorge Paz, narrating the alleged facts.148 187. Regarding these facts, several complaints were lodged with the Venezuelan authorities149 and furthermore, the criminal complaint was filed eleven days after the incident. The proceedings conducted, according to the State, consisted in interviews with the alleged victims. The State has not furnished items of evidence proving these and other procedures for taking evidence, neither did it inform on proceedings conducted after that date; therefore, the Court notes an unwarranted procedural inactivity on the part of the Attorney General’s Office of more than 6 years. 188. The Court deems that the evidence tendered allows considering that Mayela León and Jorge Paz were prevented from continuing with their jobs by a group of unidentified private individuals under the circumstances above mentioned. * * * 189. The Commission mentioned that on February 18, 2002 unidentified people would have damaged a vehicle of Globovisión.150 The State argued that the complaint regarding this fact was lodged a year and a month after the incident. 190. This fact was reported before the 2° Public Prosecutor's Office of the Attorney General’s Office of the Judicial District of Caracas Metropolitan Area on March 10, 2003 and that among the proceedings already initiated, it can be mentioned the interviews conducted show that “we felt we were surrounded […] I’ve never felt like that before […] when I tried to pick up the camera they became more aggressive.” 146 Cf. affidavit rendered by Mayela León Rodríguez on April 15, 2008 (records of evidence, volume XXXIII, pages 8768-8772). 147 Cf. Request for justification of June 17, 2003, filed with the 20º Municipal Court of Caracas Metropolitan Area containing the declaration of Mayela León Rodríguez (records of evidence, volume IV, page 896). 148 During the newscast, Mayela León mentioned that she “was nicely escorted (…) by people of the Presidential guard to the van". In the video, there appears a group of people shouting "out, out" to a man shouting "tell the truth" and another person shouting "traitors, traitors" and then more people shouting “liars, traitors”. Cf. video (appendix 3 to the application) 149 Cf., Complaint lodged with the National Directorate of Common Crimes on January 31, 2002 (records of evidence, volume IV, appendix 7 to the application 7, pages 931-963). Complaint lodged with the 2º Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Judicial District of Caracas Metropolitan Area on March 10, 2003 (records of evidence, volume IV, appendix 8 to the application, pages 964-975) and complaint filed with the Ombudsman on February 1, 2002 (records of evidence, volume IV, appendix 9 to the application, pages 977-1023). 150 The Commission allegad in the application that “On February 18, 2002, unidentified individuals broke the windows of a van bearing a Globovisión logo that was parked while reporter Jhonny Ficarella, cameraman John Power, and assistant Miguel Ángel Calzadilla covered a story”.

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