The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has a period of 30 working days to formally define the accusation against several soldiers suspected of having committed extrajudicial executions against 22 alleged criminals, in the events that occurred on June 30, 2014 in the municipality of tlatlaya, in the State of Mexico.
This period was granted to the FGR “for the last time” by the Fourteenth District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters in Mexico City, an instance that since 2017 ruled against the Prosecutor’s Office because that dependency has been omissive in the investigation of these facts.
The federal Public Ministry must carry out “a careful and detailed study of the investigation” and “finally determine the preliminary investigation” against the military personnel who would have participated in the extrajudicial executions, the judge ordered the FGR Erik Zabal Goitia Novales.
The ultimatum that the togado has imposed on the Prosecutor’s Office, a copy of which he has HIGH LEVEL, It is part of an amparo that was granted in 2017 to the mother of one of the victims of Tlatlaya. As will be recalled, in that municipality in the southwest of the State of Mexico, on June 30, 2014, 22 people who, according to the Army, were criminals were murdered.
According to the testimonies of three women who survived these violent events, at least 15 people out of the 22 were executed by the military. In fact, in the amparo sentence already granted, it is noted the existence of specific instructions -received by the soldiers- with which the suspects are “ordered to kill in hours of darkness.”
Regarding this case, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued, in October 2014, a recommendation against the Secretary of National Defense and the then Attorney General of the Republic, after having proven that violations were committed in Tlatlaya serious to human rights.
The Mexican Ombudsperson, whose head nine years ago was Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez, explained that in these events there were acts of arbitrary deprivation of life, arbitrary use of force, torture and inhuman treatment, as well as conducts that violate the rights to truth and access to justice.
In this same sense, the amparo was granted in the Fourteenth District Court of Amparo in Criminal matters, since it was proven that The FGR “has failed to carry out the necessary steps to investigate the facts” of Tlatlaya, “with which the fundamental rights enshrined in favor of the victim have been violated, in article 20, section B, constitutional.”
“Consequently, the omission to investigate regarding the order consisting of the slaughter in hours of darkness has also been accredited.addressed to the base of operations to which the military involved in the events belonged”, is reiterated in the amparo ruling.
In the event that the FGR fails to comply with the term and with this sentence, the federal Public Ministry would incur in one of the crimes that are listed in the Amparo Law. Article 267 of that rule provides a sentence of five to ten years in prison, dismissal, and disqualification for up to ten years to hold public office, to the authorities that fail to comply with the final rulings of an amparo.
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