The murder of Luis Donaldo Colosio is an open case three decades later. The Attorney General's Office (FGR) has reopened the investigation leading to a conspiracy and a second gunman in the murder of March 23, 1994 in Tijuana, Baja California. Prosecutors confirmed on Monday that they had indicted before a judge Jorge Antonio Sánchez Ortega, a former member of Cisen, the government's secret service, who was assigned to the PRI presidential candidate's security team. The FGR also implicates in the case Genaro García Luna, who was then deputy operations manager at Cisen and is now accused of drug trafficking in the United States. This line of inquiry refutes the theory that Mario Aburto, the confessed murderer – and who has reported being tortured – acted alone.
However, Judge Alberto Chávez Hernández rejected the prosecutor's new allegations and did not connect the defendant to any trial. The FGR claims that the evidence presented against Sánchez Ortega proves his presence at the crime scene “at the same moment of the crime, when there was a second difference between the two shots.” A blood test was also added to the investigation file, which revealed that Colosio's blood was on his clothing, although the former Cisen agent was not involved in his transfer to the doctor after the attack. The prosecution stated that in addition to “a large number” of witness statements confirming that he fled the scene, there was also rodizonate evidence indicating that Sánchez Ortega fired a weapon.
Prosecutors allege that García Luna covered up the attacker and then removed him from Tijuana “in an urgent and clandestine manner.” The FGR has warned against appealing the decision of the judge, whom it accused not only of obstruction of justice but also of making statements of a “personal nature” against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The retrial was led by a special prosecutor's office led by prosecutor Abel Galván. López Obrador ordered the file to be re-examined, three decades after an official version was debunked by Aburto's claims that he was a victim of torture. Some government critics saw the reopening of the investigation at a crucial time for the presidential and parliamentary elections as a political goal.
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