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| Lawyer (with microphone); to his left are defendants Alejandro Lugo (dreadlocks) and teacher Enrique Rosales (blue shirt) (Photo: Cencos) |
Proceso: Editors
The thirteen people subject to trial for the disturbances of last December 1 will present criminal charges against their accusers, including former Federal District Attorney General and current Secretary of Public Security, Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, and former head of Public Safety and current Undersecretary of Police Operations, Luis Rosales Gamboa.
At a press conference, David Peña, National Association of Democratic Lawyers (ANAD), said that an impeachment request against Rodriguez Almeida will also be presented in the Chamber of Deputies with the goal of
"barring him from the exercise of any public office, for the serious human rights violations committed when he was Attorney General."
The announcement came a day after the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District (CDHDF) issued a Recommendation to the local [Mexico City] government for the violation of the rights to safety, freedom and personal integrity, freedom of expression against 102 people.
According to Recommendation 7/2013, in which the local ombudsman Luis González Plascencia characterized the operation involving 5,172 police officers as "disorganized and disproportionate", the ninety-nine people made available to the Attorney General by the police were detained arbitrarily, including the thirteen who remain under legal proceedings.
Accompanied by the victims and their family members, another of the lawyers, Armando Barrera, indicated that they also demanded that Public Ministry [Investigative Police] desist from accusations against them [defendants] for the crime of attacks on public peace and, where appropriate, that Criminal Judge 47, María del Carmen Mora Brito, be removed from the case.
"With information documented by the CDHDF we will be presenting criminal complaints against the current Secretary of Public Security, Jesís Rodríguez Almeida, for his conduct as Attorney General the day of the events; against current Secretary of Public Security, Luis Rosales; against former Undersecretary of Police Operation Darío Cachón, and against the head of PGJDF Agency 50 at the time, among other additional complaints," the lawyer explained.For their part, the defendants called on various agencies of the Mexico City government to accept in full the points of the CDHDF's Recommendation regarding the December 1 events during the inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto as President of Mexico.
"From December 1 we said that we were innocent, that we had nothing to do with the acts of violence and that our arrest was arbitrary, that we had been beaten and humiliated, and the government did not believe us," Alejandro Lugo charged.
Another of the detained, [the teacher] Enrique Rosales, said that by accepting the CDHDF Recommendation the authorities
"would send a message of responsible government and not just a government that leads this city by evaluations of image and media pressure, that fabricates culprits and that violates human rights without any consequences."