Mexico City.- The General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) withdrew five other arrest warrants that had been issued against 5 former state officials from Guerrero, just last August 19, including those of the former Attorney Iñaky Blanco Cabrera and the former president of the High Court of Justice, Lambertina Galeana Marin.
It also withdrew the arrest warrants against Jose Ulises Bernabe Garcia former railing judge in Iguala; Luis Europa Solis Jimenez and Javier Uribe Iturbethe first computer maintenance and support technician and the other analyst programmer, both from the TSJG.
According to information from federal governmentthe FGR requested in writing Enrique Beltrán Santés, Second District Judge in Federal Criminal Proceedings, for the arrest warrants in favor of the former state officials.
Of the total of 83 arrest warrants issued by Judge Beltrán on August 19, the FGR has already withdrawn a total of 21, since it also withdrew the arrests against 16 soldiers from the 27 and 41 Infantry Battalions, who were fugitives. for the crimes of organized crime and forced disappearance.
In other words, the Prosecutor’s Office has so far regretted having filed criminal charges against a quarter of the defendants in criminal case 15/2022, the last file it brought to court for the Iguala case.
In the case of the former state public servants, the arrest against former Attorney General Iñaky Blanco was based on the crime of organized crime and was essentially based on the statements of the protected witness “Juan”, who assures that he paid bribes of 50 thousand dollars per month. to the former prosecutor for the protection of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group.
In relation to the magistrate Lambertina Galeana and the two technicians in systems of the TSJG, the arrests were released by the judge for crimes against the administration of justice and forced disappearance of persons.
The facts they were reproached for are the loss or possible concealment of the videos from the security cameras of the Palace of Justice of Igualacorresponding to the night of September 26, 2014 and the early hours of the following day.
In the case of José Ulises Bernabé García, who was the guard judge on duty at the Iguala Municipal Police headquarters, his arrest had been authorized for the crime of forced disappearance.
According to the authorities, Bernabé is the one who received the students who had been detained by the Police on the night of September 26, 2014, although he denied the accusation at the time.
The former official fled to the United States, where he applied for political asylum.
They omit accusation against General
The accusation made by the Undersecretary of Government, Alejandro Encinas, against Brigadier General José Rodríguez Pérez, of having ordered the execution of 6 of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa, does not exist in the file that the FGR consigned against him.
The REFORMA Group was able to confirm that in the file presented by the Prosecutor’s Office to the federal judge Enrique Beltrán Santés, there is no witness or deponent that implicates the General in the homicide of these students, nor is there any other documentary evidence or private communications from which it appears. that remark.
In criminal case 15/2022, the protected witness “Juan” singled out the General for protecting the operations of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group and for even having detained and released one of its leaders, Mario Casarrubias Salgado, who died in prison. by Covid-19 on July 26, 2021.
“Rodríguez, of the rank of Colonel, of the 27th Battalion, who carried out activities in favor of the criminal group, such as the one that detained the alias ‘El Huaraches’, where he was detained and Mario Casarrubias Salgado was released, others in which they They helped transport weapons and drugs, because no one stopped them on the road,” the witness stated.
But at the press conference on August 26, Encinas said something else that does not work in this FGR investigation.
“There is information, also corroborated with calls to the 089 emergency telephone number, where it is proven that six of the students were allegedly held for several days and alive in what they call ‘the old warehouse’ and from there they were handed over to the colonel,” reported.
On that occasion, the undersecretary said that after the violent events of September 26, 2014 in Iguala, the six aforementioned normalistas remained alive for four days.
They were then handed over to the then Colonel Rodríguez Pérez, commander of the 27th Infantry Battalion, who ordered the multiple executions.
Encinas also released an analysis diagram of the messages exchanged by the actors involved in the events.
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Supposedly, the Colonel coordinated and gave orders to David Hernández Cruz “El Chino”, a firefighter from Iguala and hitman for Guerreros Unidos.
According to federal sources, the FGR was not aware of the existence of this evidence the day Encinas made the accusations against the General public.
A source familiar with the case, who asked not to be identified, mentioned that the undersecretary’s statements are based on some chats of which there is no certainty so far.
scientific, because only “screenshots” have been offered and the FGR does not have in its hands the telephone device that contains said conversations to carry out an expert opinion.
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