In 2019, the Mexican Abril Pérez Sagaón was murdered with at least two shots, one in the head and one in the back.
The case shocked Mexico because it occurred on November 25, when thousands of women were demonstrating for the Day against Gender Violence. Also because Abril had already denounced her ex-husband for a previous attempted murder and a judge had dismissed the case.
And because Juan Carlos García, ex-husband of Abril, was the director of Amazon Mexico.
Eight people were arrested in connection with the femicide, but not García, who is a fugitive from justice and on a red alert from Interpol.
This week, in an intermediate hearing for the case, Rodolfo “N”, one of the detainees, declared before the judge that he planned and executed the murder by order of Abril’s ex-husband.
And that for this, García paid him US$ 9,000. A part prior to the order and another as a bonus for having done it soon.
“We want the intellectual author imprisoned”
According to Rodolfo “N”, who allegedly shot Abril, the ex-husband paid him 180,000 Mexican pesos (just over US$9,000) to kill her, and even offered him a “bonus” of another 50,000 pesos (about US$2,500) if The murder was committed before the next hearing of the process that was being carried out against him for a previous attempt at femicide, according to the local media Animal Politico.
In the same hearing, a taxi driver, accused of providing logistical support, gave details about the participation of a woman, Ahisha “N”. The woman, already detained, presumably served as a link between Juan Carlos García and the perpetrators.
The lawyer for Pérez Sagaón’s family, Héctor Pérez, said in an interview with Animal Politico that this “adds to the right to the truth, to clarify the facts” and should exert more pressure on the Mexican Attorney General’s Office to arrest Juan Carlos. Garcia.
“Until now, the prosecution had not been able to clarify who fired the shot, and the clear indication was established before a judge that Juan Carlos organized the femicide, paid for it and even offered a bonus to prevent the process against him from continuing,” detailed the defender.
At the hearing, Rodolfo “N” apologized to Pérez Sagaón’s relatives and told them that he had committed the crime because he needed the money.
Javier, brother of Abril Pérez Sagaón, said that “the process does not end until the intellectual author is there,” according to the local media Milenio. “What we want is for the intellectual author, who decided to kill my sister, to be imprisoned.”
From “injuries and family violence” to femicide
In January 2019, Abril Pérez Sagaón denounced her husband, Juan Carlos García, for attempted murder.
Her then-husband hit her with a baseball bat while she slept and tried to kill her, wounding her with a scalpel, and one of her sons was a witness.
Pérez Sagaón denounced the attempted murder and was granted a restraining order against her husband. At the same time, she moved to Monterrey, in the north of the country. From there she followed up on the judicial process and processed her divorce.
In September, Juan Carlos García entered prison as a precautionary measure.
But the case took a turn when Judge Federico Mosco González reclassified the crime of attempted femicide to “injuries and family violence.”
That paved the way for the preventive detention to be withdrawn, and the man was released on November 8 by decision of Judge Carlos Trujillo Rodríguez.
It was there when García filed a legal appeal to obtain custody of their children. And that meant that Abril Pérez Sagaón had to move from Monterrey to Mexico City on a regular basis.
On November 25, just 11 months after her complaint, Abril was on her way to the airport in the Mexican capital after a hearing. On that journey, two subjects on a motorcycle approached the vehicle and fired.
Although she was taken to a nearby hospital alive, she died from the severity of her injuries.
controversial court decision
The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office then announced that it would continue with the investigations to find those responsible for the murder of Pérez Sagaón and that it had opened an investigation against the judges involved in García’s release.
Morena, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked the Chamber of Deputies for the dismissal and disqualification of Judge Mosco González, who had already been involved in another controversial decision.
Previously, this judge decided to free a doctor accused of raping a patient in a public hospital.
Mosco González ruled out the crime of rape, so the defendant only faced charges for the crime of sexual abuse, and was able to do so in freedom.
The judge was suspended since November 2019 for his actions in the case, as was the other magistrate who led the hearings, Luis Alejandro Díaz.
Héctor Jiménez López, another of the judges who participated in the case, saw how the Congress of Mexico City rejected that he continue in his position as magistrate for life due to his performance in this same process.
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BBC-NEWS-SRC: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-61746993, IMPORTING DATE: 2022-06-09 14:10:06
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