The legal consultant of the Executive Power, Antonio Peraltasaid that, regarding the investigation of the murder of the minister of Environment, Orlando Jorge Merathe version that the tragic outcome might be due to his fight for compliance with environmental law 64-00 cannot be ruled out.
“I do not know the details, but it is a version that circulates, this is the product of having faced some mafias who operated in Environmentit is the version that circulates, and it is a version that we cannot rule out, ”said the official upon arrival at the Blandido funeral home, where the remains of Jorge Mera are veiled.
Lawyer and politician Jorge Mera was shot dead on the followingnoon of Monday, June 6, in his office by his childhood friend, Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota.
His death has shocked the country and politicians from the region who have expressed their condolences to the Jorge Villegas family.
“This is a bestial fact, what happened to Orlando Jorge Mera is not a human fact, it is a bestial fact”Peralta indicated when speaking with the press outside the Blandino Funeral Home on Lincoln.
Regarding the future of the confessed murderer, the Public Ministry said in an institutional note that it is deepening the investigations of the fact to present charges once morest Cruz de la Mota, who is still detained in the small jail of the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva, awaiting his appearance. before a judge.
Miguel Cruz de la Mota was a close friend of today’s deceased Jorge Mera, family members point out that they had been friends for 40 years.
The facts
After noon on Monday, he went to the headquarters of the Ministry of Environment Armed, he had an argument with a childhood friend and then at least 7 shots were heard that took the life of the minister. Later, he fled to the church of Jesus Christ, High and Eternal Priest, where he confessed that he killed a man. The authorities arrived there to arrest him.
The lifeless body of Jorge Mera will be buried in the Puerta del Cielo Cemetery on Wednesday followingnoon following a tribute is paid to him at the National House of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), of which he was acting president and delegate to the Central Electoral Board (JCE).