The undersecretary for human rights, population and migration, Alejandro Encinas, announced that three other people involved in the disappearance of ayotzinapa normalists received absolute sentences on Thursday.
The three involved are: Osiel Benitez, who is already at large, as well as Carlos Cantú Salgado and Raúl Javier Crespo, who, he said, will surely leave tomorrow, in another “sabadazo”.
All three were acquitted by Tamaulipas district judge Samuel Ventura Ramos, who in the past month has released 29 people involved in the case.
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With the last three releases, out of 142 involved, only 64 are under process, “and with these criteria, most can obtain freedom,” Encinas added during their participation in the International Forum on Human Rights Prosecutors.
He also blamed the judiciary on the releases, because although investigations are flawed, the process is neither recounted nor those who tortured are punished, and the scenario is of total impunity.
“I myself have pointed out that there have been omissions, negligence, that there was torture, that there were illegal practices, sowing evidence, but that does not mean exonerating responsibility for the crimes they evidently committed,” he said.
It regretted that although the Office of the Attorney General had made an effort to expand the existing evidence, this investigation continued to be dismantled.
Again, the judge of the First District of Federal Criminal Proceedings in the state of Tamaulipas, Samuel Ventura Ramos, yesterday granted orders of release to three other persons linked in the case #Ayotzinapa. Of the 142 people arrested, only 64 remain under the process. pic.twitter.com/AcJO9SO8Mj
— Alejandro Encinas (@A_Encinas_R) October 4, 2019
He noted that the Special Commission for the Ayotzinapa case reviews the situation of each involved, because some could be imprisoned again since they only obtained a freedom order, which is different from the absolute sentence.
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In a post-Forum interview, Encinas commented on the resignation on Thursday of Judge Eduardo Medina Mora, and considered that it is not enough, but that an investigation has to be made into the alleged wrongdoings he committed.
A few weeks ago, when the same judge, Samuel Ventura Ramos, granted the freedom to 24 others indicted in the Ayotzinapa case, Encinas accused that they had been made “on bridge day, and in a decision not signed by the judge, but by the Secretary of Accords, Adriana Ruvalcaba Velázquez”.
He also noted that no photograph of the court was found or record in the pages of the Judiciary, and recrimmed “that the action (of Judge Ventura Ramos) is an affront to the investigative work carried out by the federal government through the Commission Presidential Presidential.
At the time, on Judge Ventura’s work, Encinas said he would go deep into the facts to get justice. “I’m not blaming the judge, I’m making it known and giving a point of view of his performance. I’m not making anything up here,” he said.
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