The lawyer David Dorantes, defender of the Mérida police officers accused of torturing and sexually abusing the young José Eduardo Ravelo, attacks that caused his subsequent death, accused various irregularities and deficiencies in the statement against the security elements and the investigations he carried out the entity’s Prosecutor’s Office.
According to Dorantes, in his statement Ravelo stated that he had been detained in a different place by eight security elements from another police corporation, who were transported in a pick-up truck and had different surnames from the municipal police.
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“In other words, the victim pointed out questions of a way, time and place completely different from the municipal police. It indicates a corporation in a specific way, it indicates a mechanism of the facts, in this sense the State Attorney General’s Office should investigate whether these agents and of that corporation that is indicated actually exist, ”he said at a press conference from Mexico City.
In addition, he pointed out that Ravelo had “self-injurious behaviors” since before his arrest, which is why he already had injuries at the time of his arrest. In addition, he claimed to have several test videos that show that there was no violence against the young man while he was under the protection of the police.
“The media pressure caused a deficient investigation. It is not possible that a defender had to interview direct witnesses, who were never interviewed by the State Prosecutor’s Office, ”he accused.
However, the lawyer refused to answer whether the elements indicated by Ravelo in his complaint were municipal or federal, nor did he speak about whether the injuries suffered by the young man were carried out before or after his arrest.
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“Today we have a tragedy for five families. For the direct victim because he does not really know what happened, because he went to report to the State Attorney General’s Office and ignored him and wanted to investigate the municipal elements and did not investigate the security corporation that made the reference.
It was on July 21 when 23-year-old José Eduardo Ravelo was detained by the municipal police of Mérida and taken to the city headquarters, after two men denounced him for throwing a stone into the city. a local.
According to the investigations, the following day Eduardo appeared before the Investigation Unit of the State Prosecutor’s Office to file his complaint, where the young man was ordered to receive medical attention.
There authorities notified that the young man was in a serious state of health, who reported his death. According to necropcia, the cause of death was “multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, secondary to multiple trauma.”
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However, Eduardo’s mother reported that her son was beaten and raped during the time he was under the protection of the security elements, a situation that led him to spend four days in intensive therapy and later die.
Given this, four policemen were indicted on August 7 for the crimes of qualified homicide committed in a gang, rape and aggravated torture. However, it was the control judge Rómulo Antonio Bonilla Castañeda who issued the Non-Binding to process to find no evidence.
This led President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to ask the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to initiate an investigation folder of the case, including against those who “covered up the case,” which began Tuesday afternoon for the crime. of torture against Ravelo.
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