translated from Spanish: Mayor of Ixtlahuacán to testify to MP for Giovanni’s death

The mayor of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Eduardo Cervantes Aguilar, will appear on Friday before the Attorney General’s Office of Jalisco for the case of Giovanni, a 30-year-old boy who died in the custody of policemen of that municipality. 
State Prosecutor Gerardo Octavio Solís said that only municipal officials are investigated, so the mayor will have to testify on the facts on Friday. The crimes investigated in Giovanni’s case are murder and abuse of authority.
Read: What is known about Giovanni’s case, the young man who allegedly died at the hands of policemen in Jalisco
On Monday he is also summoned to appear for another police abuse investigation folder. 
On May 5, Giovanni was arrested by policemen in Ixtlahuacán. In a video that has circulated on social networks, the young man is shown resisting that the security elements would take him away, in the face of the claims of citizens who questioned the reason for his arrest.
The prosecutor narrated that Giovanni was admitted to the cells of the municipal prison, hence he took the health care area “died on the way”.

This is how Giovanni López, a 30-year-old bricklayer, was taken away by the municipal policemen of Ixtlahuacán in Jalisco for not carrying cover covers. They beat him to death. the State of Terror and Persecution installed by governor @EnriqueAlfaroR pic.twitter.com/BMRRSgkjhC
— Jorge Armando Rocha (@rochaperiodista) June 3, 2020

Early versions noted that Giovanni was arrested for not using head coverings, a mandatory protective measure in the state. However, on Thursday Macedonian Tamez, General Coordinator of State Security, said that the reason for the arrest was an administrative foul “because (Giovanni) is aggressive with the safety elements under the effects of some substance”.
He confirmed that there was no gun injury, but only blows.
State authorities reiterated that the lack of covered must at no time lead to police arrest or abuse, and insisted that the arrests have been due to an aggressive response by citizens against police officers not for not wearing bed covers.
The prosecutor denied that the prosecutor’s office has asked the mayor not to arrest the policemen, as the Prosecutor’s Office under no circumstances can suggest whether or not these public servants should be suspended, it is an attribution of the mayor, which in due course he should have made the decision.”
He clarified that everything happened in the municipal sphere.
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Original source in Spanish