Abarca obtains protection for change of precautionary measure; he will remain in prison

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2024-07-13 19:25:36

Jose Luis Abarcaformer mayor of Equal toinvolved in the disappearance of the 43 Normalistas from Ayotzinapa for the process against him for alleged money laundering, he obtains protection but will remain in prison for his 92-year sentence for the kidnapping of 6 activists, including the leader of the Popular Unity of Iguala, Arturo Hernandez Cardona.

On Thursday afternoon, a federal judge in matters of amparo and federal trials of the Mexico state ordered a new resolution on the justified prison that Abarca Velázquez is serving, so that his health status is evaluated, and it is determined whether he should remain in the prison Almoloya de Juarez puts his life at risk, and therefore, the precautionary measure should be changed.

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In the determination of protection granted by Everardo Maya Ariasthird district judge in Amparo and Federal Trials MatterThe court is requesting that the elements be provided to verify or determine whether the illnesses that José Luis Abarca claims to have are serious or terminal illnesses, or whether they are illnesses that can be controlled through treatment; that the illness does not represent an imminent risk to his life or limitation of any organic function if he remains incarcerated.

Once the evidence is analyzed, Abarca and the General Prosecutor of the Republic to issue a new resolution either in favor of or against house arrest.

In 2022, the former mayor of the Guerrero capital was exonerated for the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa students; last December he obtained an injunction that nullifies the change from official preventive detention to justified imprisonment, but due to the charge of 92 years, he remains in jail.

Abarca Velázquez has been in prison for almost a decade, after the then PGR implicated him in the disappearance of the 43 from Ayotzinapa, accusing him and his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda, of ties to the Guerreros Unidos, a group attributed with the attack on the normalistas on the night of September 26-27, 2014.

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2024-07-13 19:25:36

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