Veracruz.- The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) invalidated the crime of outrages to the authority in Veracruzso that hundreds of prisoners must be released in the next few hours.
On Tuesday, March 1, 2022, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the crime of outrage against authority in the state, by giving retroactive effect to the declaration approved a day earlier, by which it reformed articles 331 and 371 of the Penal Code of Veracruz in favor of the unconstitutionality action 66/2021.
In this way, the validity of the controversial crime of outrages against the authority in Veracruz, which came into force as of March 12, 2021, is annulled, so that the people charged with that crime from that date must regain their freedom.
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“The declaration of invalidity is proposed to take effect retroactively to March 12, 2021, the date on which that legal order came into force from the notification of the operative points of this sentence to the Congress of the State of Veracruz”, declared the Plenary of the Court.
The SCJN ordered local and federal authorities to be notified of its resolution, such as courts, tribunals, the Congress of Veracruz, the State Attorney General’s Office and Governor Cuitláhuac García, for the possible cases that they may have of a person accused of this crime.
Thanks to this resolution, all the people who have been accused since March 12 of last year in Veracruz for crimes of outrage against authority and espionage against Public Security Institutions, will be able to request the judge to dismiss their case, whose process can no longer continue.
In turn, the judge must summon a hearing within a maximum period of 24 hours to resolve the legal situation of the accused and that they regain their freedom.
According to the Veracruz Prosecutor’s Office, at least a thousand people are accused of outrages against the authority in the entity, of which the majority are imprisoned.
In response, Governor Cuitláhuac García sent the same Tuesday to the local Congress an initiative to dictate preventive detention to those who attack the Veracruz authorities, with which instead of outrages to the authority the new crime would be for violent aggression, and would contemplate the aggressions with firearms.
It should be remembered that the classification of the crime of outrage against authority was highly criticized in Veracruz and at the national level, even by members of Morena, as it is considered to violate human rights and is highly authoritarian and intolerant.
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After the resolution of the Supreme Court, the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the existence of the crime of outrage against authority and highlighted the importance of putting freedoms before “respect for authority.”
“We must always put freedoms above, and respect for authority is earnedwhen some authority is not respected, they are insulted, excesses are committed, the one who does so is disqualified, already in our time, that is why I do not answer or insult, “AMLO declared in La Mañanera this Wednesday.
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“Imagine that I am denouncing outrages against authority, what was it called before? Administrative offenses for insults or outrages against good government, or offenses against authority, something like that, no. People have, I have always maintained it, an accurate instinct, he knows well about the causes, and what happens with the parties of the conservative bloc is that they are very nervous, anything bothers them and it is understood,” said the president of Mexico.
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