Discarded. The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorruled out this Tuesday pardon to the killer of the 1994 presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio. The request for pardon was requested by one of the victim’s children. The Prosecutor’s Office asked that the theory that a second shooter could have participated in the attack.
The accused, Mario Aburto, has been imprisoned for almost 30 years, sentenced shortly after being found guilty of the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrietacandidate for president of Mexico for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The Attorney General’s Office reported Monday afternoon that it will appeal the decision of a judge of discard some evidence that would imply that a former member from the government spy agency He also shot Colosioin addition to Mario Aburto, confessed author of the murder.
“No crime should be allowed (…) but this is a state matter,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters. “I’m not going to shelve a matter like that,” he added to explain why he didn’t want to grant forgiveness to Aburto.
Why did they ask for clemency for the murderer?
He eldest son of the assassinated presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojaswho is currently mayor of the northern city Monterey, near the border with the United States, had asked for a pardon to give “a final shelving of the matter”.
The murder of Colosio in March 1994 in Tijuana, a city bordering San Diego, shook to the Latin American country and for years there were questions about the investigation of the attack against the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to succeed Carlos Salinas (1988-1994).
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According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the evidence would show that the former agent of the Cisen Jorge Sánchezthe former intelligence agent, was at the scene of the crime, that his clothing showed traces of the same type of blood as the victim and that according to rodizonate tests “I would have shot a weapon”.
In addition, the institution assured that, according to testimonies, the government spy agency sent him to the place and then cover it up and get him out of there “surreptitiously.”
What the prosecution says
The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that Sánchez’s alleged cover-up would have been the then operational deputy director of the Cisen, Genaro Garciawhich last year was pleaded guilty in the United States to accept bribes to protect drug cartels.
Critics of the president They questioned the action of the Prosecutor’s Office months before the June presidential elections, ensuring that “it was a distractor about recent corruption allegations, in some media, close to the presidential environment.” The president came out in step with the versions and says that they are forged by his political enemies and the “conservative media.”
Source: Ambito
