A memorial for the 43 students of Mexico City. AFP photo
A Mexican judge on Wednesday prosecuted former prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam for crimes of forced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice for his alleged participation in the disappearance of Ayotzinapa’s 43 students in 2014.
The former chief of the former Attorney General (PGR) of Mexico (2012-2015) appeared before a judge in the north prison for more than nine hours, where The relatives of the missing young man were present to respond after his arrest last Friday at his home south of the Mexican capital.
In the continuation of the initial hearing, one of the former official’s lawyers assured him “There is not just one test” against Murillo Karam, that there was no person who testified against him or witnesses who involved him in the events.
Likewise, he asked the judge to declare the crime of torture prescribed and to apply the rule with the lowest penalty in illegal enforced disappearance.
His supporters asked they will be fired the press conferences that the current Attorney General (FGR) used as evidence to accuse him.
Among these, that of 6 October 2014, when the PGR announced the attraction of the Ayotzinapa case, the meeting of 7 October in Iguala, where the former governor Ángel Aguirre was staying, and that of 27 October, where the former prosecutor he would instruct Tomás Zerón, then director of the now defunct Criminal Investigation Agency, to apply the full force of the state.
In addition to the conference on November 7, where “historical truth” was first mentionedwhich Murillo’s lawyers have described as a legal notion that cannot be taken as evidence.
The hearing takes place Monday after the second judge of the Amparo District Criminal Matters District in Mexico City granted the suspension to the former prosecutor to cease any acts of incommunicado detention and ordered to ensure their health and physical integrity.
This morning, during the usual press conference, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that the former prosecutor must speak and say “who gave you the order”also as a protected witness.
Murillo Karam is accused of being one of the producers of the “historical truth”, a government version of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) which claimed that corrupt policemen arrested the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which killed them and incinerated in a landfill in the southern state of Guerrero.
The arrest of the former prosecutor is the highest profile of the case so far and comes after the report by the Truth Commission, which concluded last Thursday that the disappearance of the 43 students was a “state crime” in which the authorities were involved. of all levels and there is no indication that the students are alive.
Source: EFE and AFP
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