Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 24, 2024, p. 3
The calls Saturdays have been a common practice of the Judiciary throughout this six-year term. Between 2018 and so far in 2024, federal judges have released 192 suspected highly dangerous criminals on weekends, said the Undersecretary of Public Security, Luis Rodríguez Bucio.
According to a report that the official presented yesterday at the presidential morning press conference, the court rulings have benefited people accused of committing federal crimes and belonging to at least 14 of the country’s most bloodthirsty criminal gangs.
On the other hand, he mentioned, during the same period only 58 releases of people deprived of their liberty for various crimes have been recorded during the week.
Something happens in the Judiciary and (almost) all releases tend to be precisely on the weekend, which is when, for example, it is not possible to quickly check whether any of the released prisoners have another investigation file in a state prosecutor’s office.
to prevent him from leaving prison.
The Undersecretary announced 25 relevant cases
of people favored with a Saturday morning.
The crimes reported are: homicide, extortion, kidnapping, possession of weapons for the exclusive use of the armed forces, migrant trafficking, organized crime in the form of crimes against health and the environment, robbery, huachicoloperations with resources of illicit origin, embezzlement, to name a few.
The above against alleged members of the Jalisco cartels New generationfrom Sinaloa, Santa Rosa de Lima, from the Northeast, from the Gulf, from sea, The Zetas, Union Tepito, Tepito Anti-Union Force, The Knights Templar, The Mexicles, United Warriors and The Bukanas (dedicated to the kidnapping and illegal extraction of fuels).
Likewise, a gang of traffickers of undocumented persons and a former collaborator of Genaro García Luna, who was head of the Public Security Secretariat in the government of the PAN member Felipe Calderón, accused of embezzlement and organized crime.
Rodríguez Bucio displayed the names of all the judges who decreed Saturday morning in these 25 relevant cases
.
One of these issues, he explained, is that of Judge Karina Castillo Flores, who granted conditional release to Mireya N and Miriam N, alleged hitmen of the CJNG accused of participating in the attack against the former head of Public Security of Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch, although they remain in prison for other crimes.
Judge Andrés Escamilla González favored Vicente Javier N, accused of homicide and alleged member of the group of kidnappers of Abigael González Valencia, The Cuinisbrother-in-law of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes The Menchoboss of the CJNG. It came out on Sunday, February 5th.
President López Obrador demanded that judges not excuse themselves with the expression silver or lead
to release suspected dangerous criminals with the so-called Saturday morning.
If the judge is in that situation, he should ask for a change, ask for protection, and look for a job in an office.
He accused that they release potential criminals for corruption. “The sheet of Saturday morning It is a disgrace. How is it possible that from Monday to Thursday they release 58 and at the weekend 192? How can that be explained?
