At 6:47 a.m. this Saturday, Murillo Karam was transferred to the Federal Justice Center in the North Prison, following traveling more than half an hour in a convoy made up of four trucks from the Secretary of the Navy and motorcycles from the Secretary of the Navy. of Citizen Security.
The gray Jeep truck where the ex-governor of Hidalgo was transferred, first entered the customs of the prison complex, and following a few minutes, entered it directly to the Federal Justice Center where the initial hearing was held, which began shortly before 10 o’clock. :00 hours.
Fifteen minutes following the start of the hearing, Judge Mauricio Antonio Fuerte Tapia granted a one-hour recess for the defense of the accused to learn regarding and review the investigation folder provided by the Attorney General’s Office within criminal case 307/2022. .
At the hearing, Jesús Murillo Karam was accompanied by three private defenders; Elba Marina Vazquez, Antonio and Jose Javier Lopez. The former official remained at all times with his black jacket and a white mask, he only spoke before the microphone to identify himself before the judge and accept that his lawyers were present at the hearing.
In room two of the Federal Justice Center of the North Prison, representatives of the FGR, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez center and the Executive Commission for Victim Assistance were also present. In an adjoining room, there were two people identified with the initials MSG and HHR, relatives of normalist students who disappeared in September 2014, whose identity was protected with voice distortion and the camera out of focus.
The route of the audience Murillo Karam
In this first hearing, the judge will determine whether or not the arrest of former attorney Jesús Murillo Karam by the FGR was legal and will hear the crimes that the FGR charges him with.
This Saturday, it is expected that the PRI will face a long hearing in which the defense of Murillo Karam might request the duplicity of the constitutional term so that his legal situation is defined and the FGR asks the judge for the precautionary measure of informal preventive detention or that decide that in this same hearing it be defined whether or not ex-prosecutor Karam is linked to the process, a situation that might last for several hours.
Lawyers from Centro Prodh also attended the hearing on behalf of the relatives of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa.
