A judge linked the ex-prosecutor to the process Jesus Murillo Karamfor the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice, for his alleged participation in the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, which occurred in 2014.
The Control Judge of the North Prison Marco Antonio Fuerte Tapia ratified the justified preventive detention in the North Prison due to the risk of escape.
The former head of the former Attorney General’s Office appeared before a judge in the North Reclusorio of Mexico City for more than nine hours, where relatives of the disappeared youth were present.
In the continuation of the initial hearing, one of the lawyers of Murillo Karam, a PRI militant, assured that there is not a single piece of evidence against the former official, that there was no person who testified against him or witnesses who involved him in the events.
He also asked the judge to declare prescribed the crime of torture and apply the norm with the lowest penalty in the illegal forced disappearance.
Defenders of the president’s attorney Enrique Pena Nieto They asked that the press conferences that the current Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), Alejandro Gertz, used as evidence to accuse him be dismissed.
On Monday, the second judge of the Amparo District in Criminal Matters in Mexico City granted a suspension to the former prosecutor to stop any act of solitary confinement and ordered to guarantee his health and physical integrity.
On Wednesday morning, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out that the former prosecutor must speak and say “who gave him the order”, even under the figure of a protected witness.
Murillo Karam is accused of being one of the fabricators of the “historical truth,” according to which corrupt policemen detained the students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which murdered and incinerated them in a garbage dump in the southern state of Guerrero.
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