2024-02-26 02:48:45
Tomas Zerón by Lucioformer head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), denied having used torture during the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa.
In interview with the BBCthe former Mexican official defended the “historical truth” and made reference to the accusation he faces for torture against Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, alias “El Cepillo.”
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“It is clear that I threatened him, but I never tortured him. I was the head of the Criminal Investigation Agency, I had no need to torture anyone,” he points out during the report on the Ayotzinapa case.
According to a video that was leaked in 2020, it shows Zerón during an interrogation carried out in 2015. In it, Rodríguez Salgado is threatened so that he would cooperate with the investigations into the disappearance of the normalistas.
Tomas Zerón He also stated that when he was traveling from Mexico City to Cocula, on October 28, 2014, one of the detainees pointed out a place where they would have dumped the bags with bodies.
“My idea was to first get to the garbage dump, but when we were flying over the river, the detainee said, it was in this place where we stopped and threw the bags,” he added.
In 2021, an arrest warrant was issued against Tomas Zerón for the crime of torture against “El Cepillo” within the facilities of the Federal Investigation Agency of the then Attorney General’s Office.
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The Mexican government has requested the extradition of Zerón de Lucioaccused of the crimes of torture and the alteration of evidence in the case of the 43 normalistas.
However, authorities reported in October that this process was had stopped for the conflict that began in Israel.
The Mexican government affirmed that it has complied with all the requirements requested by Israel to determine if Tomas Zerón may be subject to a process of extradition.
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