Source: Los Ángeles Press vía MXporFCassez (Spanish)
Autora: Guadalupe Lizárraga
30 de agosto, 2014
Translation: JB for CART / ACDV
MEXICO CITY — Enriqueta Cruz Gómez, mother of the accused in the Wallace case, Brenda Quevedo Cruz, was arrested this morning by ministerial officers of SEIDO (Assistant Attorney’s Office Specialized in Organized Crime Investigations) to testify in the investigation by the Public Prosecutor Lourdes López Lucho, in charge of the preliminary inquiry against several journalists and human rights activists that have revealed the fabrication of Hugo Wallace’s kidnapping.
Around 9:30 a.m., several ministerial agents came to Enriqueta Cruz’s house and demanded that she come with them to the facilities of SEIDO concerning the preliminary investigation number PGR/SEIDO/UEIDMS/464/2014 against the activist David Bertet and the journalists Guadalupe Lizárraga, Anabel Hernández, and Luis Miguel Ipiña, who have revealed the fabrication of the kidnapping and killing of Hugo Wallace by Isabel Miranda Torres.
The document, shown at a distance by the ministerial agents, highlighted that it was “urgent and confidential” for Enriqueta Cruz to come before SEIDO, even though on August 11 she had already been interviewed by López Lucho for more than five hours.
Los Ángeles Press called the Public Prosecutor Lourdes López Lucho over the arrest of Enriqueta Cruz, and it was told that the officer was not working over the weekend. The coordinating prosecutor assigned to the Anti-kidnapping Unit, Edgar Rodríguez, who answered the call, said that only the prosecutor in charge of the preliminary inquiry could follow up the case.
He said that he would give the message to López Lucho; however, this journalist has contacted SEIDO on three occasions, since last week, and the Public Prosecutor has not answered her calls, despite the fact that the calls are about the preliminary inquiry into the evidence published in her newspaper reports about the fake kidnapping of Hugo Wallace.
Concerning the same preliminary investigation, the activist Giel Meza was also detained on July 13, 2014, without legal notification, which is why he filed a report with the Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal (Human Rights Commission of the Federal District) with file number CDHDF/121/14/CNDH/R0689.
In turn, the President of the Canadian Association for Rights and Truth, David Bertet, also filed a report for intimidation, reprisals and abuse of authority against the ministerial officers of SEIDO before the FEADLE (Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes Against the Freedom of Expression) of the PGR.
The latest information update from the relatives of Enriqueta Cruz is that, after waiting about there hours at SEIDO, they were told that she had only been taken to court facilities to testify on the report made against the journalists, and that she would be released in about three hours more.
