Mexico City.- A federal judge opened a third trial against Felipe Flores Velázquez, former police chief of Iguala, Guerrero, allegedly involved in the disappearance of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa, now for the crime of organized crime.
Judicial sources reported that Jorge Humberto Castellanos Medellín, First District Judge in Federal Criminal Proceedings of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, issued an order for his formal imprisonment, after considering that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) offered sufficient evidence to support the accusation.
This is a case in which he is accused of links to the Guerreros Unidos criminal group, to which the disappearance of the 43 normal students from the Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School, in Ayotzinapa, is attributed.
The former police commander was arrested on October 21, 2016 in Iguala by FGR agents and since then he has been imprisoned in the Altiplano Penitentiary.
This new process was initiated based on an arrest warrant that was issued since 2014 and that was only completed on June 4 in his cell at the penitentiary center, by agents of the Federal Ministerial Police of the FGR.
For Flores, this is the third trial he faces for the events that occurred on the night of September 26, 2014 in Iguala.
In 2016, a first trial was opened against him for the crime of illegal deprivation of liberty in the form of kidnapping, to the detriment of the 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa.
In 2022, a second trial was initiated against him for the crimes of organized crime and forced disappearance, also to the detriment of the students.
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