Jessica Xanthomilla
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday September 17, 2022, p. 8
Organizations that accompany the fathers and mothers of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa who disappeared in 2014 reported that the relatives have not been notified about the resolution in favor of the former mayor of Iguala, Guerrero, José Luis Abarca, nor about the arrest of Brigadier General José Rodríguez Pérez, who at the time was a colonel of the 27th Infantry Battalion.
However, regarding the acquittal of Abarca and 19 other people, including at least 11 former municipal police officers from Iguala who had been identified as part of the group of The Warlikecontrolled by organized crime, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez and Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Centers, as well as Serapaz and Fundar, urged the Attorney General’s Office to file the corresponding appeal.
It should be remembered that the third district criminal court, based in Tamaulipas, acquitted them, considering that the Federal Public Ministry did not provide sufficient evidence to prove the accusation.
The organizations indicated that this sentence “derives from a case that at the time began with the accusation filed in 2014 by the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Investigation of Organized Crime (Seido), which presented numerous irregularities, including the extensive practice of torture, which even led to the exclusion of multiple incriminating evidence due to its illegality. The accusation was incorrect, as it even framed the events as ‘kidnapping’ and contained multiple factual errors”.
In this sense, they stated that the result of acquittal is attributable to the bad performance of the then Attorney General’s Office
.
Therefore, they argued New accusations had to be presented with the correct classification of forced disappearance and with lawful evidence, since it was foreseeable that this ruling would arrive
.
Since Wednesday, the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas, regretted that again
the Tamaulipas judge, Samuel Ventura Ramos, who released 77 alleged perpetrators involved in the events, acquitted Abarca, one of the main involved in the disappearance of the boys
.
In social networks, the federal official expressed: The resolution of Judge Samuel Ventura Ramos, who intends to exonerate those allegedly responsible for the disappearance of the 43, was an accusation made by Seido in 2015
. He clarified that, meanwhile, the investigation currently carried out by the Specialized Unit for Investigation and Litigation of the Ayotzinapa Case (Ueilca), for the crime of forced disappearance, it is a pending process
.
Regarding the detention of Brigadier General José Rodríguez Pérez, for his presumed responsibility in the crimes against the normalistas of Ayotzinapa, the organizations stated that they ignore the extremes of the accusation, including the crimes imputed to him and if these are adjusted to the facts contained in the president’s report
of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the case, including the presumed participation of this soldier as the intellectual author of serious crimes against some students or other facts investigated by the Ueilca
.
