In hindsight, some deaths could be described as announced chronicles. It is, perhaps, the case of the Mexican singer Yrma Lydya, partner of a man of whom numerous details of his personality and his way of behaving are revealed these days. None good. Jesús Hernández Alcocer shot and killed the 21-year-old woman at the Suntory restaurant last Thursday night, in front of everyone who was there. The immediate impact of the crime is not due only to its spectacularity and brazenness, nor exclusively to the fame of the girl, it was also soon learned that the one who pulled the trigger was a man of influence in the judicial and political world, well known in some public spheres. So much so, that some fear that the trial for this murder could go unpunished or without the necessary punishment.
Due to his presence in public life and in news affairs, such as the fraud case of Bishop Onesimo Cepeda, of which he was acquitted in 2015, several journalists knew him, because he was supposedly his defender, and today they remember their meeting with him. Nothing good. The writer and reporter Emiliano Ruiz Parra draws a profile of the femicide close to the gangsters of the twenties of the last century, both in his ostentatious clothing and in his bravado. The same boasted of having met with Pope John Paul II who asked the waitress who served them in the restaurant for a kiss. This was years ago, but those who have had contact with him in recent weeks say that his behavior has not changed. Today he sleeps in the North Prison while justice continues its course.
The singer Dulce, who shared the stage with the hapless Yrma Lydya, told this newspaper that Hernández Alcocer constantly boasted about his legal contacts. “If you have a problem with the law, you just have to tell me and I’ll solve it for you,” he used to tell the artist. She also says that the mother of the murdered woman had no sympathy for her son-in-law, who was 58 years older than her daughter’s age. She perhaps noticed how Hernández Alcocer tried to separate her from Yrma Lydya. The deceased singer hid her husband from her when she visited her mother, and she followed her path, with the three bodyguards he had placed monitoring her every step.
The contacts of the Suntory femicide with important people are not limited to the judicial sphere, nor do they remain in the past. Relationships have also been known with the military and political world, yesterday and today. Journalist Raymundo Riva Palacio cites military sources to recount the connection with General Audomaro Martínez Zapata, director of the National Intelligence Center of Mexico, for example, and mentions that the lawyer served in the restaurant practically every day with a pistol hanging from his belt, they say. that gold plated. With the general, says the analyst, he joined them a security company in the name of the son of the former.
The man now imprisoned presumed so much that it is difficult to determine to what extent his influence was true or how much bravado there was. He offered the writer Ruiz Parra everything in that 2013 appointment, except what he was looking for: truthful information to write about the Catholic hierarchy as a result of the case of the Bishop of Ecatepec. He shared a table, he says, with other diners who offered him a jewelry and car pawn shop, with a man who claimed to be his son, and with a girlfriend who was also in her twenties. Hernández Alcocer has had two other partners, who also died.
So, November 2013, a private room at the Max Prime restaurant, four in the afternoon. As a movie capo, he wore a white silk shirt under a striped suit, suspenders. The watch and the tie full of diamonds. To write about the Catholic hierarchy, as the reporter requested, he would have to wait until he died, the lawyer, who was not a lawyer at the time, released. He only got his law degree in 2017, so if he defended some cases he would do it extrajudicially.
Emiliano Ruiz Parra, with whom this newspaper has spoken by phone, was offered to enter politics at that table. If he wanted the PRI, he would introduce him to Emilio Gamboa; if the PRD, Jesús Ortega; if he preferred the PAN, there was his friend Luis Alberto Villarreal. He offered his contacts like the one who opens the jacket and reveals, hanging from the lining of the garment, an assortment of watches.
What did not like that merchandise? I had others. He told her about his works of art and offered her a commission to sell, for example, a Rubens, an ivory piece, a work by Bernini, specifically a faun. “And he showed me a note published in a gringo magazine, american lawyer, where he appeared under the nickname of The Godfather. The truth is that I never looked for that magazine, but everything else from that meeting is in my notebook and in my memory,” says Ruiz Parra, who works on an investigative journalism project, Alternating currentfor UNAM students.
El Tirantes had his religious past: a boy who wanted to be a priest but ended up expelled from the seminary. Those were the years when religious orders forced pupils to dress and undress without their bodies being seen, so did the nuns. To the femicide it seemed like a memory worth telling that the religious taught them in this way “to take care of the fagots.” When he grew up he had a confessor, José Luis Guerrero, he also told Ruiz Parra, “who was offered to be a judge of the Tribunal de la Rota, the one in charge of undoing Catholic marriages of famous and well-to-do people.” The priest turned down the job, much to Hernández Alcocer’s annoyance. “The divorces of kings are handled there, with a divorce like that I would never have worked again in my life. I would have divorced Vicente Fox ”, followed the ghosts of the meeting that afternoon in the restaurant, before a journalist who was recording everything in his memory.
Before attending that appointment, Ruiz Parra activated his protection protocols. Even then, the businessman, as he made himself known, had a reputation for being a dark character and related to the country’s security forces, including Secretary García Luna, who was responsible for the police in Peña Nieto’s time and who is now in jail in the United States. “I told my friends that I would meet him at that restaurant, that I would go alone, and that they already knew where they could look for me if I didn’t report.”
A few weeks ago, the femicide and his wife had a meal at their house in Pedregal. Composers and public relations were there, all of them trying to relaunch the singer’s career, for which her husband said there was no limit: whatever was necessary. Yrma Lydya was dressed very elegant that day and had put on her jewelry. There she sang for them, recalls the artist’s public relations, Víctor Hugo Sánchez. She performed a bolero by Armando Manzanero, Señor Amor: “she did it very well”. Those who visited her house remember it as huge and with luxury items. Good wine and rude manners are common in the stories that circulate these days about the femicide.
Hernández Alcocer abandoned the secrecy that has accompanied him in his businesses on the night of Thursday, June 23, when he pulled the trigger against his young wife under the lights of the Suntory restaurant. After the moment, he returned to his business: he wanted to buy his escape from the agents who were holding him to bring him to justice, but they did not allow themselves to be bribed. The images show Suspenders handcuffed behind his back, with his white shirt and gray pants, the same shades as the tie. He was wearing a black mask. So he left the restaurant where the waitresses used to wear girdles that constricted their waists. And where he was once heard scolding with impudence and without manners to the waiters who paid homage to him. “You’re coming to put on your monkey face,” he snapped at one of them. It was in November 2013.
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