Judge rejects reopening investigation folder of the collapse of Line 12 of the Metro

A control judge refused to reopen the investigation folder requested by 5 of 10 defendants for the collapse of the Subway Line 12which occurred in May 2021.

Despite the evidence presented by the defendants’ lawyers, Teofilo Benitezdefender of 13 victimsrefused to the request of the litigants advising officials.

The objective of the 5 defendants was to reopen the case to argue the lack of maintenance as the main cause of the collapse of Line 12, which runs from Mixcoac to Tláhuac, which left a balance of 26 deaths and more of 100 injured.

Among those involved is Enrique Horcasitaswho was the owner of the Metro Project and whose defense seeks to restart the investigation by presenting the breach of around 100 facts of investigation that ignored the CDMX Prosecutor’s Office.

According to lawyers from the firm of Regino Lawyersdefender of Horcasitas, for not exhausting all the evidence on the part of the CDMX Prosecutor’s Office violates the former official’s access to justice.

The litigants defending little forks They argued that the defendants have the right to exhaust the body of evidence within the period given by the Control judge, which ended on January 20.

However, the lawyer Teofilo Benitez detailed that the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) issued a ruling to establish the time of the complementary investigation.

Said judgment cannot exceed the 6 monthstime that has already expired, since the investigation began on June 6 and, as stated, ended last january 20.

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