Who is Tomas Zeron de Lucio?
Tomás Zerón de Lucio worked on public security issues both in the Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto administrations. He has a degree in Industrial Administration UPIICSA (IPN) and a master’s degree in Criminal Sciences.
The former official arrived at the PGR in 2013 by direct appointment of former attorney Jesús Murillo Karam, arrested this Friday for the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice, in the “Ayotzinapa” case . His experience in intelligence matters made him a key man in the restructuring of the Attorney General’s Office.
In 2007, during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón, Zerón de Lucio was in charge of the Police Control of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP), in the Secretariat of Public Security, there he met Genaro García Luna, arrested on December 10, 2019 in Texas United States, on charges related to drug trafficking between 2006 and 2012.
In May 2007, Tomás Zerón was removed from his position in the PFP after an attack was reported in Cananea, Sonora.
Then he joined the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Mexico as coordinator of Investigation and Analysis, headed at that time by Alfredo Castillo Cervantes, this after the resignation of former Mexican attorney Alberto Bazbaz, caused by the Paulette scandal, the girl who disappeared on 22 March 2010 and days later she was found dead in her bedroom, between the chest of drawers and the mattress of her bed.
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In 2013, Zerón de Lucio left the Mexican Attorney General’s Office to become director-in-chief of the AIC by direct appointment of former federal attorney Jesús Murillo Karam.
On September 15, 2016, Tomás Zerón resigned from the AIC. Hours later, former President Peña Nieto appointed him as technical secretary of the National Security Council.
Tomás Zerón and the Ayotzinapa case
After the disappearance of the 43 normalista students from Ayotzinapa on September 26, 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero, Tomás Zerón was the main person in charge of the investigation of the case.
In April 2016, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) accused Zerón of being responsible for violating the investigation process; as well as planting plastic bags with bones in the San Juan River, in Cocula, Guerrero.
Since then, the parents of the 43 normal students from Ayotzinapa pointed to Zerón as one of the architects of the so-called “historical truth”which handled the theory that the normalistas were burned in the Cocula garbage dump and their remains were thrown into the San Juan River.
