Javier Duarte is linked to the process of forced disappearance of people
Former PRI governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa has been charged and linked to the trial as allegedly responsible for the crime of enforced disappearance of people.
This Thursday, November 17, the Office of the Attorney General of the State, headed by Verónica Hernández Giadáns, reported that this was carried out through the Office of the Specialized Prosecutor for the Attention of Complaints for Missing Persons.
The state agency indicated that the former president of Veracruz is linked to the disappearance of a person, whose identity has not been revealed.
In a statement, the prosecutor’s office said his human rights and due process were respected, and he was presented remotely before a review judge based in the prison courts of Pacho Viejo, municipality of Coatepec, near from Xalapa.
At the initial hearing, where the charge was brought and when the constitutional term was lifted, the order chaining the trial was issued, imposing the precautionary measure of preventive detention justified for one year and six months of investigation additoinal.
Recall that Javier Duarte was arrested in Guatemala on April 15, 2017 for the offenses of money laundering and criminal association, for which he is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence in the northern prison of Mexico City.
Groups of relatives of the disappeared protested and demanded that Duarte de Ochoa and former Public Security Secretary Arturo Bermúdez Zurita be tried for the crime of enforced disappearance.
Concealment
The colectivos charged that, in previous administrations, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) disappeared bodies in Veracruz to cover up state officials implicated in enforced disappearances.
According to Carlos Saldaña Grajales, member of the Familiares Enlaces Xalapa collective, the 19 bodies for which ex-governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa was charged, for his alleged responsibility in the crime of enforced disappearance, could have been illegally buried in one of the three mass graves in the cemetery of the El Chico community, municipality of Emiliano Zapata.
De has requested the exhumation of the bodies from the prosecutor’s office, since Duarte’s six-year tenure, but so far the request has not been met.
“They were buried in April 2016, three months after finding the bodies in Barranca La Aurora. These 19 bodies are as if they had disappeared, the police took them out of the ravine, they took them to the Periciales and unfortunately, or by the work of who knows who, these 19 bodies are disappearing because they accuse Duarte of enforced disappearance,” he said.
Carlos Saldaña recalled that he had had access to the files of 13 of the 19 bodies in the mass grave mentioned and that none had been identified; however, forensic personnel showed the documentation again and they already had the DNA evidence.
“When they lifted a body they weren’t given an ID protocol, now what they’re doing is taking that information to say there’s an ID protocol, but we have several cases where the DNA was not there, this is what helps to make a comparison with the relatives we are looking for,” he added.
In addition, they demanded that all bodies from the mass graves of municipal pantheons be exhumed for identification in the process of finding their relatives.
“Because the crime was at the state level, it was not only in Xalapa, it was in all the municipalities, from north to south, the police operated with the criminals and even the municipal authorities found out why they had to authorize the search of the bodies in each of its pantheons”, underlined Saldaña Grajales:
Carlos is looking for his children Karla Nallely Saldaña Grajales and Jesús Alberto Estrada Martínez, who disappeared on November 29, 2011, in the area of the Xalapa club.
Source: El Heraldo De Mexico
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