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This article was translated and reposted from INFOBAE
Mexico’s President López Obrador accused the judge of offering an injunction to the former head of security of Los Chapitos, to prevent his extradition to the US.
WRITTEN BY: CESAR JIMENEZ
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador exploded against the judge who granted a stay to Néstor Isidro “N”, alias El Nini, former head of security for Los Chapitos, against his extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for crimes such as conspiracy to traffic fentanyl, possession of weapons, among others.
During this Tuesday morning’s Cero Impunidad section, Judge María del Carmen Sánchez Cisneros, of the Fourth District Court of Amparo with residence in Mexico City, who granted protection of justice to the alleged drug trafficker, was shown.
However, it was minutes later in the same conference that President López Obrador criticized the Judicial Power and accused the judge of “offering a warrant” to ‘El Nini’ to avoid extradition.
“Néstor Isidro is arrested in this case, and a judge almost at the moment of the arrest offers him amparo so that he will not be extradited. What is that? If this is not corruption, let the ministers of the Court and the Judiciary Council tell me what this is about. Is this law? This is crooked,” said the president.
López Obrador questioned that for this type of case “it is not necessary to have a doctorate in Law” or belong to large institutions of lawyers such as the Institute of Legal Sciences of the UNAM or bar associations, whom he accused of “remaining silent” in the face of this type of situation.
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However, the president did not stop there and continued with his criticism of judges, whom he also accused of looking for any argument to grant suspensions to alleged criminals.
“It is purely a matter of law, that the law is the law. What arguments do they use in this case, that he was tortured, and beaten and it is shown that he was not. But anything, that they did not show him the arrest warrant, that the authority that carried out the arrest, how is it that he says he was not the first responder, that it was not at 5:35 in the morning, but at 6:40, anything,” accused the federal president.
Source: INFOBAE