The writer Andrés Roemer, denounced for rape and sexual abuse – and on whom at least four arrest warrants weigh – reappeared in a video in which he affirms that he is innocent and that the accusations against him are “unfounded”.
According to Roemer, the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Ernestina Godoy, is issuing arrest warrants and requesting red cards from Interpol “with false information.”
“I was not in the place and at the time where the facts are placed,” says the former diplomat to deny the accusations and complaints against him.
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He accused that two of the four folders against him are “unfounded” and pointed to the prosecutor’s office of “fabrications” “for political agenda and personal interests.”
The businessman and former collaborator of Grupo Salinas was accused by at least 63 women of committing acts of rape, sexual abuse and harassment. The Mexican government has sent Israel five requests for his extradition.
Animal Político published on January 31 that foreign affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard sent his Israeli counterpart, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, a letter in which he requested his cooperation to extradite Andrés Roemer to Mexico.
In the letter, which was sent in the second week of January, Ebrard told the Israeli foreign minister that, for Mexico, Roemer’s extradition is a matter of state.
Authorities consider Roemer a fugitive from justice and presume he is living in Israel, a country with which Mexico has no extradition treaty.
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