Eight Soldiers Arrested For Their Alleged Involvement In The Ayotzinapa Case Are Now Free.

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A total of 8 soldiers accused of the crime of forced disappearance of people, in the case of the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, left the Military Camp 1-A, around 03:00 AM on January 24, 2024, after on Saturday, January 20 of the same month and year, Raquel Ivette Duarte Cedillo, head of the Second District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings in the State of Mexico, based in Toluca, determined that they should be free to proceed with their process.

The federal judge set a guarantee of 50 thousand pesos for the eight elements of the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) and ordered their presentation before the Unit of Precautionary Measures on the 1st and 16th of each month, as well as the surrender of their passport and the prohibition of leaving the country, approaching the state of Guerrero, as well as interacting, approaching, or communicating with protected victims or witnesses, as long as it does not affect their right to defense.

The released military personnel were Gustavo Rodríguez de la Cruz, Omar Torres Marquillo, Juan Andrés Flores Lagunes, Ramiro Manzanares Sanabria, Roberto de los Santos Eduviges, Eloy Estrada Díaz, Uri Yashiel Reyes Lazos, and Juan Sotelo Díaz.

“Due to the change of the precautionary measure from mandatory preventive detention to meeting all these requirements and having complied with all the demands of the court, such as the delivery of passports, proof of residence, and payment of bail, they were gradually released throughout the early morning, passing midnight and up until 3:00 in the morning,” said lawyer César Omar González Hernández.

“I believe that at this moment, everyone is already arriving at their homes with their families and ready to face the rest of what is to come, as the trial is about to begin and they will prove their complete innocence,” stated the litigant during an interview with journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva on Radio Fórmula.

Likewise, González Hernández criticized that the Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB) had sent a letter to Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, president minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), on December 12, 2024, warning of the risk of acquittal for the eight military officials involved in the Ayotzinapa case, given that, in their opinion, “that is not within their jurisdiction.”

“The fact that the Secretariat of the Interior sends letters to the chief justice, well frankly it has no value. She is not a part of the process, so it is a legal nonsense,” pointed out the defense lawyer of the eight soldiers, who also indicated that the release of five other soldiers was pending.”

They were Brigadier General José Rodríguez Pérez, subject to criminal proceedings for the crime of organized crime; as well as Captain José Martínez Crespo; Sublieutenant Fabián Alejandro Pirita Ochoa; the First Infantry Sergeant, Eduardo Mota Esquivel, and Infantry Soldier Francisco Narvaez Pérez, who were accused of the same crimes. “We will fight for them, for the same cause, that the change of precautionary measure should have the same fate for everyone,” insisted the attorney.

On January 23, 2024, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador criticized the resolution of the Federal Judiciary (PJF) and revealed that he had warned the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (SCJN) of the risk of the acquittal of the 8 soldiers for the crime of forced disappearance of people, in the case of the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa, who were granted conditional release on Saturday, the 20th of the same month and year.

On January 22, 2024, the Federal Government announced that it would request the Attorney General’s Office to, if possible, request new arrest warrants from the Federal Judiciary against 8 soldiers for the crime of enforced disappearances of people, in the case of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.

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