Law No. 25031 amending Law 24700
Law that modified Law 24700 on anti-terrorist procedures, granting broad powers to the Police in the investigation of terrorist crimes and displacing the Public Prosecutor's Office from its constitutional role. This law represented a break with the constitutional model of crime investigation.
Law 25031, published on June 2, 1989, modified several articles of Law 24700, which established procedural norms for the police investigation, instruction and trial of crimes committed for terrorist purposes. This law developed a new anti-terrorist legislative scheme characterized by a rupture of the constitutional model of crime investigation by disregarding the powers of the Public Prosecutor's Office and arbitrarily expanding those of the Police. In fact, the law established a de facto supplanting of the Public Prosecutor's Office and granted the Police the power to conduct the investigation of these crimes. These provisions substantially affected not only the terms under which the preliminary investigation was to be carried out, but also affected the procedural model in which the trials for the crime of terrorism were developed, which represented the administrativization of the criminal process.