The former diplomat Andrés Isaac Roemer Slomianski, arrested on Sunday in Israel at the request of Mexico for being accused of the alleged commission of sexual crimes, He may be extradited to our country thanks to the fact that he lost a protection with which he intended to cancel the arrest warrants against him, properly granted by several judges in the Mexican capital since 2021.
“For the issuance of a judicial arrest warrant, it is not required that the defense of the person intended to be arrested be heard beforehand, since it is enough to observe the requirements provided for in constitutional numeral 16, as in the case that occurred,” he determined in his ruling. Judge María Catalina de la Rosa Ortega, head of the Ninth Amparo District Court in Criminal Matters of Mexico City.
The ruling that denied the protection of federal justice to Roemer was already reviewed by the Tenth Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters, an instance that last March confirmed the sentence of the Ninth Court, so the arrest warrants against the accused remain in force. , which will allow his immediate arrest when Israel sends him to Mexican territory.
The two aforementioned resolutions, copies of which you have HIGH LEVEL, They give an account of the arguments made by Andrés Roemer’s defense in his attempt to reverse the arrest warrants, which were considered unfounded by both Judge Ortega and the three magistrates who are members of the Tenth Collegiate Court.
“Access to the right to adequate defense was not granted, since he was not allowed to go and exercise that right, which causes well-founded fear that the arrest warrant was not issued in accordance with the law,” says one of the grievances raised. by the defendant’s defender.
Likewise, in the request for protection, Roemer Slomianski considers that his right to the presumption of innocence has been violated. Specifically, his lawyer stated that “they intend to detain him outside of any legal procedure, thereby violating constitutional and conventional rights, since “He was held responsible for various crimes of a sexual nature, which violated the right to the presumption of innocence.”
Likewise, he accused the coordinator of advisors of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City, and the coordinator of Investigation of Gender Crimes and Attention to Victims of that institution, of subjecting him “to a public lynching, by making known the public opinion the existence of investigations and complaints against him, by pointing him out as responsible for the commission of crimes of a sexual nature, without there being (a) prior sentence.
All of the above turned out to be unfounded for Judge María Catalina de la Rosa Ortega, since when analyzing the arrest warrant that was issued on May 4, 2021 against Roemer for two crimes of rape, no deficiency was found.
In the investigation folder “there is data that probably proves that an act that the law indicates as a crime of rape has been committed”, allegedly committed by the former diplomat and also a communicator, the robe stated.
In fact, the sentence that denied protection to the person currently extraditable adds, “contrary to what was argued by the complainant, the arrest warrant issued on May 4, two thousand and twenty-one, in the judicial file (…) satisfies the guarantee of legality enshrined in numeral 16, first paragraph, constitutional.”
Furthermore, the arrest warrant does not violate the human rights of the applicant for protection because in the investigation carried out by the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office, based on the complaint of one of the several victims of Roemer, “the intentional action with which he acted has been proven.” ”.
More than 61 victims
“From the evidence data it is not evident that he had any other purpose than that deployed with the accused actions, given the mechanics of the events and the circumstances in which he carried them out, having inserted his penis into the vagina of the victim with initials * *******, through physical violence, in his home,” states the ruling of the Ninth District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters of Mexico City.
This Monday, the Israeli Embassy in our country reported in a statement the arrest of Andrés Roemer, “suspected of having committed crimes of rape and rape in aggravated circumstances according to Mexican law.”
“Although there is no extradition agreement between Israel and Mexico, and given that Israel is a country that respects the rule of law and not a haven for criminals, Israel treated the request very seriously and will continue to do so in the future“said the Israeli diplomatic legation.
From 2021 to date, the accused has processed around 30 Amparo Trials in order to avoid his arrest. There are at least 61 testimonies against Roemer from an equal number of women against him.
The main complainant is a Mexican classical dancer who has publicly testified about the sexual assault she suffered. Is about Itzel Schnaas, who since 2020 accused Roemer of sexual abuse.
This Monday, after the arrest of the 60-year-old communicator was announced, the artist told journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva that she and other victims feel “very afraid” of her attacker’s return to Mexico.. “We have been surviving for 3 years and I mean that in every way,” he asserted.
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