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- 内容摘要
- 消息源称，联邦起诉书指控卡斯特罗向调查人员作伪证，共六项罪名
- 消息源称，卡斯特罗被羁押后，起诉书将正式公开
- 国土安全部曾因卡斯特罗作虚假陈述将其停职
华盛顿9月3日路透电——据一位熟悉此事的消息人士周四透露，一名移民官员已被联邦大陪审团起诉，罪名是就去年冬季在明尼苏达州驱逐行动高峰期间一名委内瑞拉男子遭枪击事件向调查人员作虚假陈述。
这位不愿具名的消息人士表示，移民海关执法局特工克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗面临六项向调查人员作伪证的指控，因其未获授权公开谈论此次调查。消息人士称，卡斯特罗被羁押后，起诉书将正式公开。
这是司法部采取的非同寻常的举措，此前该部门一直避免指控联邦官员存在刑事不当行为。这是已知司法部首次就明尼阿波利斯行动中的不当行为起诉联邦移民官员，该行动是唐纳德·特朗普总统移民打击行动的一部分。
去年1月14日，正值特朗普在明尼苏达州的驱逐行动高峰期，卡斯特罗在明尼苏达州面临枪击朱利奥·塞萨尔·索萨-塞利斯并致其腿部受伤的州级指控，该事件引发了数周抗议。
目前明尼苏达州对卡斯特罗发出了有效逮捕令，他曾在得克萨斯州一所县监狱关押90天。上周，共和党州长格雷格·雅培表示拒绝签署民主党明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·瓦尔茨提交的引渡文件，卡斯特罗随后获释。
州级指控还包括虚假报案：卡斯特罗据称错误地向国土安全部上级报告称，索萨-塞利斯等人用雪铲和扫帚袭击他，但视频证据证明该说法不成立。
国土安全部已将卡斯特罗停职，这位熟悉案件的消息人士表示，民权调查正在进行中，目前尚未得出结论。
据该消息人士透露，曾负责此案的联邦检察官马特·埃文斯本周被解雇，此前ProPublica报道称，他曾向索萨-塞利斯的律师发送邮件，称司法部律师已阻止他提起联邦指控的努力。消息人士称，埃文斯目前因妨碍大陪审团调查正接受调查。
卡斯特罗上周从卡梅伦县监狱获释后，尚未公开回应针对他的州级指控，记者周四也未能立即联系到他置评。
特朗普政府一直在为ICE特工的行为辩护，错误地称他们享有绝对豁免权，不受州级起诉。
索萨-塞利斯的律师罗宾·沃尔珀特在一份声明中表示，她的当事人希望卡斯特罗“为其行为承担全部责任”，并希望对其提起更严厉的民权指控。“卡斯特罗因作伪证被起诉，”她说，“但他作伪证是为了掩盖自己毫无正当防卫理由，朝一栋有人居住的房屋的门开枪击中我的当事人这一事实。”
明尼苏达州美国公民自由联盟周四宣布，将代表索萨-塞利斯起诉特朗普政府。
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ICE agent charged with lying over Minnesota shooting, source says
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- Summary
- Federal indictment charges Castro with six counts of lying to investigators, source says
- Charges to be unsealed once Castro is in custody, source says
- DHS had suspended Castro for making false statements
WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – An immigration officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota during a deportation surge last winter, according to a source familiar with the matter on Thursday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro was indicted on six counts of lying to investigators, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The charges will be unsealed once Castro is in custody, the person said.
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The charges are an extraordinary step by a Justice Department that has refrained from alleging criminal wrongdoing by federal officers. This is the first known Justice Department prosecution of a federal immigration officer over wrongdoing in the Minneapolis operation, part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Castro faces state charges in Minnesota for shooting and wounding Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg on January 14, at the height of Trump’s deportation campaign in Minnesota, which drew weeks of protest.
There is an active Minnesota state arrest warrant for Castro, who spent 90 days in a Texas county jail. He was released last week after Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said he was refusing to sign extradition papers sent by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat.
The state charges also include falsely reporting a crime after Castro allegedly wrongly told superiors at the Department of Homeland Security that Sosa-Celis and others attacked him with a snow shovel and broom, which was disproved by video evidence.
DHS has suspended Castro, and the person familiar with the case said a civil rights investigation is ongoing and no decision has been reached yet in that matter.
Matt Evans, a federal prosecutor who had been working on the case, was fired this week after ProPublica reported he sent an email to Sosa-Celis’ lawyers saying DOJ attorneys had stopped his efforts to bring federal charges, according to the person familiar with the case. Evans is now being investigated for obstruction of a grand jury investigation, the person said.
Castro has not publicly addressed the state charges against him since his release from the Cameron County jail last week, and he could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday.
The Trump administration has largely defended the conduct of ICE agents, saying incorrectly that they have absolute immunity from state prosecutions.
Robin Wolpert, a lawyer for Sosa-Celis, said in a statement her client wants Castro to be held “fully accountable” with stronger civil rights charges. “Mr. Castro has been indicted for making false statements,” she said. “But he made them to cover up the fact that he shot my client through the door of an occupied house without a self-defense justification.”
The ACLU of Minnesota announced on Thursday that it will represent Sosa-Celis as he sues the Trump administration.
Reporting by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff in Washington, D.C. and Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Michael Learmonth and Cynthia Osterman
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