The governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, asked the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to attract the case of alleged enforced disappearances at the hands of the entity’s ministerial police last weekend, against more than twenty young people who demonstrated to demand justice for the death of Giovanni Lopez.
“I have just asked the headline of the FGR, Alejandro Gertz Manero, to attract investigations of such regrettable facts. I thank you for all the willingness to take my call and access our request,” Alfaro posted on his Twitter account.
“The state’s attorney is currently on its way to Mexico City to make available all the evidence that has been available so far.
The Attorney General’s Office may continue the investigation independently and impartially to find those responsible. My commitment is that this will not be yet an extra chapter of impunity. We’re not going to overlap anyone and we’re going to go all the way to the last consequences,” he added.
Since last Friday, as I announced, the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Missing Persons has opened of its own motion a folder of investigation for the alleged commission of the crime of enforced disappearance, in the face of the undue action of the ministerial policemen of the @FiscaliaJal.
— Enrique Alfaro (@EnriqueAlfaroR) June 9, 2020
Alfaro’s government in Jalisco has faced criticism and accusations from activists for their reaction to the protests that sparked the death of Giovanni Lopez, allegedly at the hands of municipal policemen in Ixtlahuacán de los Quinces.
Alfaro was delinquered from what such municipal elements might have committed, noting that his government will seek no impunity in the case. Then, faced with arbitrary arrests pointing to ministerial policemen in Jalisco, during protests over Giovanni’s death, he also referred that he did not give the order to be repressed.
“The instruction I gave was to act wisely, prudently, and today a group of people from the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office slashed my instructions and acted in an irresponsible and brutal manner that will not be forgiven,” Alfaro published on June 5.
“We will go with all the weight of the law against whoever has been responsible, as we already did in the case of Ixtlahuacan and, although we live in turbulent moments, nothing justifies the excessive use of force. There will be no considerations,” he added.
In later tweets Alfaro reported that two elements of the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office had been arrested, allegedly responsible for arbitrarily detaining protesters and committing enforced disappearances. He also disclosed that charges against all the detained protesters had been dropped to regain their freedom.
For these acts, of police abuse against those who participated in Guadalajara in demonstrations to demand justice for the death of Giovanni López, the Morena party filed a complaint with the FGR against the state prosecutor, Gerardo Octavio Solís.
“We filed a formal complaint for the opening of the corresponding investigation folder and, in the time, the corresponding sanctions against Gerardo Octavio Solís Gómez, holder of the State Attorney General’s Office, as well as those responsible for human rights violations,” the coordinator of Darkenist lawmakers in the Congress of Jalisco, .ika Pérez, said on Tuesday, according to the mural.
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