MEXICO CITY (apro).- The parents of the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas who disappeared in 2014 are unaware of the terms in which the 16 arrest warrants against military personnel and a civilian were reactivated, said Vidulfo Rosales, attorney for the relatives of the victims.
In interview with ProcessRosales Sierra, highlighted that at the meeting of the Commission for Access to Truth and Justice in the Ayotzinapa (Covaj) case on May 27, the special prosecutor Rosendo Gómez Piedra informed representatives and relatives that the Unit Special for the Investigation and Litigation of the Ayotzinapa Case (UEILCA) “was ready to reactivate the arrest warrants that had been canceled by the Public Ministry in September of last year for non-legal political reasons.”
The lawyer from the Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Center highlighted that since last year an agent of the Federal Public Ministry outside the UEILCA requested the cancellation of 21 arrest warrants that had already been granted by a federal judge, “the demand of fathers and mothers was that, in order to reestablish trust in the special prosecutor’s office and in the federal government, it was necessary to reactivate the arrest warrants.”
Pointing out that another of the demands of the fathers and mothers is that the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) “deliver to the UEILCA all the information that it collected before, during and after the disappearance of the students,” Rosales Sierra said that In the meeting that the relatives of the victims with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in October of last year, there was an angry demand for the cancellation of the arrest warrants.
“At that meeting, the president gave instructions to seek more evidence, to carry out the necessary legal analyzes and if there were elements, to reactivate the arrest warrants against the military, since he had no commitments to anyone. He also asked us to propose the prosecutor, but the fathers and mothers decided not to get involved in that issue, ”he recounted.
According to the defender, in subsequent meetings of the Covaj, “they tried to evade the issue but the parents remembered that the reactivation of the arrest warrants was pending, to which the authorities responded that they were looking for more elements of proof”.
However, he added, the representatives and relatives of the disappeared normalistas insisted that it was not necessary to look for more evidence, because “a federal judge had previously assessed that there was sufficient evidence to issue the arrest warrants, which were canceled based on a criterion political that we are unaware of, and not for legal reasons”.
Recently, in communication with the prosecutor Gómez Piedra, he informed Rosales Piedra of the reactivation of 17 arrest warrants, one of them against a civilian.
“Among the canceled arrest warrants there were three against civilians, the former prosecutor of Guerrero, Iñaki Blanco Cabrera, the former president of the State Superior Court of Justice, Lambertina Galeana Marín and the former railing judge in Iguala Ulises Bernabé García, not We know against which of them the court order was reactivated,” explained Rosales Sierra.
The lawyer maintained that the reactivation of the 17 arrest warrants is “an important step”, that the relatives of the disappeared youths will wait for the formal arrest warrants to be issued against the persons prosecuted and that they will continue with the demand that the Sedena delivers the information it has in its possession about the facts, “which could clarify where the students are.”
“Certainly the president has rectified, not to fulfill a campaign commitment as some columnists have claimed, but because it is his obligation as an authority to guarantee that those who committed serious human rights violations answer for their involvement in the disappearance of the students.” Vidulfo Rosales pointed out.
