Unshackled: When Self-Defense Meets the Law

Unshackled: When Self-Defense Meets the Law

The Prosecutor’s Office does not report whether he was exonerated or an agreement was reached with the debtors.

The Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office reported that he freed the driver of a truck that ran over, crushed and killed a young motorcyclist who assaulted him in a corner of the mayor’s office Iztapalapa.

He also freed the driver of the bus on whose left side the young man, aged about 22-29, died, pinned to death, because the driver a manAccording to the Prosecutor’s Office, not a woman as said at the beginning– accelerated when he threatened him with a gun, in the afternoon of Wednesday, October 2while stopping at the intersection of Santa María la Purísima and Calzada de la Viga. ANDThe young man’s accomplice survived and fled on foot.

The case went viral because the events were recorded on videos, and generated popular indignation against the authorities for the arrest of the motorist who, for the dissatisfied, in this way defended his life.

They release the driver who fatally grabbed an assailant

Both drivers were released upon expiration of the legal period of 48 hours that a person can remain detained in the Prosecutor’s Office, which within that period must release them or refer them to a Control Judge to accuse them of a crime.

On an information card, the Prosecutor’s Office reported yesterday Friday that the agent of the Public Ministry ordered the release of the driver of a private van and the operator of an urban passenger bus involved in the death of the motorcyclist that occurred on the street Beam Causeway in the Apatlaco neighborhood, mayor of Iztapalapa.

The release was ordered, said the Prosecutor’s Office, after the evidence collected allowed it to be established that the driver and his passenger were victims of a robbery with physical and verbal violence and were in real, current and imminent danger and there was no motivation. representation and awareness of their act.

In other words, the Prosecutor’s Office determined that the motorist acted without premeditation and by instinct or reflex action when he saw himself in danger.

The motorist, without a criminal record

Furthermore, the ministerial authority added, derived from the study of the social environment, it is known that the driver of the truck has no criminal record or orders (of arrest or presentation) against him pending execution.

Likewise, he indicated that the immediate release of the bus driver was ordered because the traffic report determined that the vehicle was parked and that it was the truck that hit the motorcyclist against the truck.

The Prosecutor’s Office recalled that both drivers were detained to determine responsibilities for the events and, once that procedure was concluded with the aforementioned results, they were ordered to be released.

Regarding the vehicles, he reported that the van and the bus remain at the disposal of the Public Ministry.

Was an agreement reached or will the criminal process continue?

In his report, the Prosecutor’s Office He did not specify whether he released the drivers because exonerated them of the crime of homicide or if he released them on bail and, then, the file will be handed over, without detainees, to a Control judge. Or if the detainees reached a compensation agreement with the relatives of the deceased young man.

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