Gustavo Castillo
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 17, 2024, p. 4
The first collegiate court in criminal matters, based in Mexico City, determined to deny the benefit of conditional freedom to Jesús Murillo Karam, former head of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic, for which he will continue under house arrest at his residence in the colony Lomas de Chapultepec the trial against him for an accusation of torture against a detainee in the Ayotzinapa case.
The former prosecutor was accused by the Federal Public Ministry of having committed acts of torture against Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, The Brushwho during the investigations into the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas was identified as a cartel hitman United Warriors.
By unanimous vote, judges Francisco Javier Sarabia, Juan José Olvera López and Horacio Hernández Orozco agreed that Murillo Karam has the means and resources to evade justice, despite the fact that he suffers from various cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
The session in which this resolution was issued took place last Thursday, which ratified the decision of the eighth district judge for amparo in criminal matters, based in Mexico City, Rubén Darío Noguera Gregoire, who denied last February an appeal with which Murillo Karam’s defense requested the benefit of conditional release for his client.
