Arrest in flagrante for alleged intellectual authorship and its compatibility with criminal dogmatics: analysis of the arrest of Leonidas Iza for his alleged participation in the crime of paralyzing public services

Abstract

In this research work, the legal figure of the arrest in flagrante delicto motivated by the presumed mediate or intellectual authorship is analyzed. To do this, using the qualitative research method, and through the analysis of the case of Leonidas Iza Salazar, an Ecuadorian indigenous leader, detained due to the recent social protests unleashed in Ecuador, we will verify whether, in fact, the characteristics of criminal flagrancy, determined by the norm, doctrine and jurisprudence, are consistent with the criteria that criminal dogmatics has delimited regarding indirect authorship, in order to determine if the arrest and qualification of flagrante delicto under the figure of intellectual authorship is indeed viable of a crime.