No Trial in Sight For Metro Collapse: Former Employees’ Lawyer Discusses Protections

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Mexico City.- Gabriel Regino García, a lawyer representing five former Metro employees, in the case of the collapse in a section of the elevated viaduct of Line 12, between the Olivos and Tezonco stations, assured that this year and in the coming years, there will be no trial, given that there are protections that must be resolved.

After 10:00 a.m., the intermediate hearing began for this event that occurred on May 3, 2021, which left 26 dead and 100 injured, while the criminal attorney stated that they “deactivated” the use of this case by the current administration. as a political tool in the face of the presidential contest between Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Head of Government, and Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, in charge of Foreign Relations.

On the other hand, the litigant pointed out that there is still a group of victims who have not received the compensation granted by Grupo Carso, which he described as unfortunate, maintaining that in the midst of all this the group of victims remain.

As Regino García predicted, for the second time said intermediate hearing was deferred, since the parties had not been notified of the evidence that is in the file and because of the injunctions that were presented by the defense of 5 of the 10 accused, indicated a adviser to the legal defenders of the victims.

After this, the control judge set the celebration of this appearance for next September 8, which has been postponed since March 17.

INVOLVED IN THE GARCÍA LUNA CASE

Regino García joined the list of former officials who WERE mentioned during the trial of Genaro García Luna in the United States, due to his alleged ties to organized crime, particularly his alleged relationship with the Sinaloa Cartel, when he was a CLOSE collaborator of the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

It was on February 14 of this year, that Jesús Reynaldo Zambada, accused the lawyer of allegedly having received bribes of 3 million dollars 13 years ago, when he was acting as Undersecretary of Public Security of the then Federal District, at the time in which López Obrador was head of the capital’s government (2000-2005).

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