Alonso Urrutia and Arturo Sánchez
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, p. 3
Following the court order for the release of the alleged drug trafficker José Alfredo Cárdenas, known as The Accountant –nephew of Osiel Cárdenas–, the Attorney General’s Office not only challenged the resolution of Judge Gregorio Salazar, but also opened an investigation file for crimes against the administration of justice, reported the head of the institution, Alejandro Gertz. Way.
Gertz asserted that the challenge to the judge’s determination was immediate, since it was considered that the FGR had presented sufficient elements for the process.
–How would you rate these performances? It is not the first for this judge.
–Imagine how I rate them. If we go to complaint and criminal action, what else can I say?
The Prosecutor’s Office will give a complete report of what the judge said and what was answered, and of the way in which we began the complaint procedure, and that we did not stop there, but went to criminal action. We cannot allow this to be repeated. It is a paradigmatic case and we are going to use it in that sense
commented Gertz Manero.
On the other hand, to the express question about the attraction of homicides of journalists, the prosecutor asserted that there are restrictions for the FGR to proceed in that sense. He said that it must be proven that the murder of a journalist is directly linked to his professional performance, which would allow cases to be attracted.
