This release comes just three days after the former director of the Judicial Police of Marín Torres, Adolfo Karam, was also released. He was the one who allegedly ordered the mistreatment of Lydia Cacho in December 2015 when she was arrested in Cancún, Quintana Roo, accused of “defamation” and “slander” against the Lebanese-born businessman, Kamel Nacif.
Nacif had been mentioned in Cacho’s book ‘Los Demonios del Eden’, in which the journalist documents a network of paedophilia and describes parties organised by him in which he allegedly committed abuse of minors, in collusion with other politicians, businessmen and foreigners.
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At the hearing held this Saturday, August 10, Judge Angélica Ortuño Suárez only imposed a fine of 100 thousand pesos to the man who governed Puebla between 2005 and 2011.
“He is released just in the final stretch when we were expecting the final sentence for torture. This is how the former governor of Puebla has power within the Judiciary,” Lydia Cacho tweeted.
The journalist said that the judge, as with Adolfo Karam, “suddenly made a U-turn and threw all the effort, including Interpol, of 15 years, overboard protecting the rights of the tortured and violating mine.”
Marín was arrested on February 3, 2021 by agents of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), at the home of his sister Alicia, in the Cumbres de Figueroa neighborhood in the port of Acapulco, Guerrero. It all began in December 2005, when Marín had only been in power for 10 months and asked Judge Rosa Celia Pérez González – who remains in the Judiciary – to issue an arrest warrant against Cacho, for the crime of defamation and slander against his friend, Kamel Nacif.
This, after the journalist was denounced because in her book ‘The Demons of Eden’ she mentioned the businessman having participated in a child pornography network.
Cacho was arrested on December 15, 2005 in Cancun and transported by land by agents commanded by Adolfo Karam Beltrán, then director of the Judicial Police of Puebla.
During the journey, according to the journalist herself, she was tortured and threatened with being “raped and murdered.”
She was released after paying a bail of 106 thousand pesos, but the legal process against her lasted more than a year.
With the release of Mario Marín, there is no one left in prison, as Karam was also released this week, and the other police officers who had been arrested previously were also released.
This case gained international relevance because on February 14, 2006, the newspaper La Jornada published a telephone conversation between Marín and Nacif, in which the latter thanked the “precious governor” for having given Cacho “a slap in the face.”
“Whoever commits a crime is called a criminal,” Marín responded, but since then, he has always maintained that “it was his voice, but it was not his voice.”
