Mexican prosecutor accused of covering up feminicide and torture released from prison

The prosecutor for the Mexican state of Morelos (center), Uriel Carmona, accused of covering up a femicide and torturing an alleged criminal, was released this Friday because his position grants him immunity, the court responsible for the case reported.

Carmona had been arrested on August 4 for alleged obstruction of justice in the case opened for the death of Ariadna López, 27, whose body was found on the night of October 31, 2022 on a highway in Morelos.

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This case generated astonishment, as surveillance video shows the moment a man carries López’s apparently lifeless body on his shoulders in a parking lot in Mexico City.

“Unanimously”, the Unitary Criminal Court determined that the prosecutor should face the charges in freedom, said judge Juan Pablo Bonifaz during a public hearing.

Carmona assures that, according to the autopsy, the young woman who lived in the capital died from “severe alcohol intoxication and consequent bronchoaspiration”.

But, at the request of López’s family, the capital’s prosecutor’s office carried out a second autopsy, according to which the cause of death “was multiple trauma classified as fatal”. This agency accuses the person responsible for “crimes committed against the administration and administration of justice”.

Carmona, who refused to resign from his position while in prison, is also accused of torturing Luis Alberto Ibarra, an alleged criminal, to frame himself for murder, as detailed in the national press.

Along with the violence linked to organized crime that has hit Mexico since 2006, the country has suffered a wave of femicides.

From January to June, 1,516 women were murdered and, of these cases, around 500 are being investigated as femicides, according to government data.

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Source: Elcomercio

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