Cesar Arellano Garcia
Newspaper La Jornada
Friday, October 14, 2022, p. 8
The former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), Tomás Zerón de Lucio, filed a new appeal against the second arrest and execution order issued by a control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center based in the South Prison . However, Luz María Ortega Tlapa, head of the eighth district court, annulled the appeal as inadmissible.
The former official filed the appeal on October 7. The accusation that he tried to file was his alleged responsibility in the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice, related to the Iguala case.
Currently, there are four criminal cases against Tomás Zerón de Lucio related to the Iguala issue and that remain in force, three are in the East Prison and one in the South.
The first arrest warrant against Tomás Zerón de Lucio was issued in March 2020, and was signed by the control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center of the Oriente Prison for the crime of torture.
torture against The brush
In April 2021, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) obtained the second arrest warrant for his alleged responsibility in acts of torture against Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, The brushalleged member of the criminal group United Warriors accused of participating in the disappearance of the 43 normalistas.
In July 2020, a video was released in which several people appeared, including Zerón de Lucio, a fugitive from justice, participating in an interrogation, in which he was shown in conditions of torture. The brush inside the facilities of the AIC of the then Attorney General’s Office, to confess his participation in the attack committed against the 43 students of the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.
