Mexico City, March 6. A Mexican judge on Monday granted an injunction to Mario Aburto, the confessed assassin of former presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, who accused the attorney general’s office (FGR) of omission for failing to investigate the allegations of torture he suffered on the day of his death, his detention.
According to various local media, Antonio González García, judge of the second district of Amparo in criminal matters, issued the amparo after Aburto’s request to investigate the alleged omissions of the FGR in his case, which includes torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and related crimes to their detriment.
In his decision, the judge agreed with him, because the authority “did not fully respect its constitutional duty to investigate and therefore violated fundamental rights such as the right to the truth and to effective judicial protection” .
The magistrate also ordered the FGR to integrate and resolve the investigation for the alleged crimes of torture committed against Mario Aburto within six months, as his defense has long maintained that his client was tortured to obtain a confession, which have been denied by the authorities.
So far, the FGR has not issued an official position on the matter.
Last February, the FGR of Tijuana requested the declaration of Aburto’s lawyers, Xavier Alfonso Carvajal Machado and Marco Antonio Mackliz Mercado, thus reopening the file of the murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio, former PRI candidate for the presidency.
Colosio was shot twice on March 23, 1994 as he waved to crowds at a rally in the popular Lomas Taurinas neighborhood on the Tijuana border.
Although Mario Aburto, the alleged material murderer, who is currently serving a prison sentence, was arrested at that time, investigations have continued for years in search of a possible mastermind or conspiracy.
The assassination of Colosio is considered the most serious assassination in Mexico since 1928, when the elected president Álvaro Obregón, who had already presided over the country in the period 1920-1924, was assassinated. EFE
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