MEXICO – Two years after it happened, Mexican authorities reported this Friday that they detained four involved in the plane crash that cost the life of the then governor of the state of Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso, and her husband, the right-wing politician Rafael Moreno Valle .
The accident occurred on December 24, 2018 when the helicopter in which they were traveling to the Mexican capital collapsed shortly after taking off from Puebla.
Authorities of the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have attributed the accident to a mechanical failure, even though many voices considered it strange given that it involved two politicians.
The Puebla Attorney General’s Office said this Friday that the detainees, three men and one woman, are part of a company related to the operation of the aircraft and that they were being investigated for the crimes of homicide and false statements, without offering details.
“It will be the judicial authority who determines the legal situation of the four people,” added the Puebla prosecutor’s office in a statement.
Alonso, from the opposition National Action Party, had assumed the position of governor just days before the incident, in which the two captains of the helicopter and an assistant of Moreno Valle, then senator, also died.
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