translated from Spanish: PGJ-CDMX to investigate April case judges for femicide

The Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (PGJ-CDMX) will seek that the judges of Control and the magistrate involved in the case of Abril Pérez Sagaón, be tried for the crime of femicide in a count of attempt.
Ernestina Godoy, head of the Attorney General’s Office, said that on a par with the investigation that judges were initiated for administrative-criminal responsibilities such as public servants, “we want to go further”, to show that “their actions provoked a homicide”.
Read: Suspended and investigated two judges who released April’s ex-husband
During the installation of the Gender Alert Council, the procurator clarified that the investigation does not mean a confrontation with the judiciary, but that women deserve the full defense “and we will continue to work on what we say is an attempt at femicide.”
“It is not a confrontation with the Superior Court (of Justice of Mexico City), with which there is an excellent coordination relationship, (…) it is against – and I say this openly – of control judges and a magistrate,” he stressed.
The decisions made by those appointed about the reclassification of the crime of attempted femicide, allowed the release of Juan Carlos “N”, ex-husband of Abril, who months earlier attempted to murder her with a bat.
Godoy stated that in the case of judges, the crime was committed, so the investigations will continue; however, it also said that they would support the Ministry of Citizen Security in the femicide investigation against April to locate the material and intellectual perpetrators.
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“It seems to us to be a very painful subject, very emblematic, but that can serve both the administration of justice and for the procurator of justice itself; I think it’s the clear example of the lack of preparation, that’s what I want to think, the lack of preparation in looking, judging, with a gender perspective,” he said.
Godoy Ramos called to judge from this perspective, “not as a declarative thing, but as a method of analysis of these crimes, and which unfortunately causes the death of one more woman.”
Read: April wanted to help victims of the violence, but was killed in the CDMX
On January 4 of this year, Abril Pérez reported that her husband, Juan Carlos ‘N’, hit her with a bat in her sleep, so she was arrested for the crime of femicide in an attempt, but during the trial, the judges reclassified the crime as family violence and injuries, so the assailant obtained his freedom.
The Mexico City Judiciary Council suspended judges Federico Mosco González and Luis Alejandro Díaz Antonio, who in the case against Juan Carlos “N” made decisions that allowed him to be released for the assault against Abril Pérez, killed on November 25.
With information from Notimex
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Original source in Spanish