Rosendo Gómez Piedra, a lawyer from Tabasco, was appointed this Wednesday as the new prosecutor in charge of the case Ayotzinapain which 43 students disappeared in the state of Guerrero-southern Mexico- in 2014, after the resignation of the post on September 26, Omar Gomez Trejo.
The new prosecutor, originally from Tabascois a doctor in Criminal Sciences and Criminal Policy with a degree in Law and Master in Criminal Law.
He was counselor and president of the Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute (IEPCT); as well as presiding magistrate of the Electoral Court of Tabascoand has served as a professor of law.
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He also served as deputy attorney for Processes of the Attorney General of the Federal District and as president and supernumerary magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice.
In 2018 he was appointed the new Secretary of the Government of the State of Tabasco, so he is close to the current Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López.
Since last January he was legal director of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur).
The replacement of Omar Gómez Trejo
Gómez Piedra arrives just a few days after Omar Gómez Trejo left office “due to differences,” according to the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on September 27 at his traditional morning press conference.
Gómez Trejo tendered his resignation as head of the Special Unit for Investigation and Litigation of the Ayotzinapa Case of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) after alleged nonconformities in the management of the investigation within the unit.
The prosecutor submitted his resignation after personnel from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) canceled 21 arrest warrants —16 of which correspond to members of the Army— without consulting the official because they did not appear in the case report.
Gómez Trejo, who had been appointed in June 2019 as prosecutor for the case and had managed to gain the trust of the families of the disappeared students, had clashed with the head of the FGR, Alejandro Gertz Manero.
One day after the presentation of the report on August 18, which recognized, among other things, that the case was a “state crime”, the FGR announced that 83 arrest warrants had been issued against military, police, members of criminal groups and other officials.
The prosecutor had supported the position of executive secretary of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rightsfor which he knows the case very well and has the trust of the families and the human rights organizations that accompany them.
After the appointment, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Prodh) stated on its Twitter account that this was a decision that was not previously communicated or explained to the family and criticized that the appointment would be “a huge setback” by not counting the Prosecutor with experience in the independent investigation of serious human rights violations.
Also, He pointed out that the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) and technical assistance were excluded from the decision.
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