The third district judge of Veracruz, Anuar González Hemadi, ordered to annul the formal arrest warrant issued against Diego Gabriel Cruz Alonso, accused of sexually assaulting a minor in 2015.
Cruz Alonso was one of a group of four young men that became known as “Los Porkys.” In 2015, they were accused of sexually assaulting a former classmate of Cruz Alonso, after picking her up outside the popular Bar PH nightclub in Veracruz. The case became known nationally and internationally due to the apparent connection between the parents of the accused men and those working in Veracruz’s justice system.
Judge González Hemadi gave Cruz Alonso amparo (a Mexican constitutional legal process that protects citizens and their basic rights), who on January 19 was extradited from Spain to Mexico to face the Mexican justice system for the sexual assault of a minor.
The judge called for the immediate release of the accused saying that elements of the original prosecution were not properly demonstrated, and the prosecution was therefore flawed. The judge concluded that there was not enough evidence that Cruz Alonso’s actions were done with a sexual intent.
Javier Fernández, the father of the victim, described the judge’s decision as an insult.
It is now up to the Collegiate Court to either modify or ratify Judge González Hemadi’s decision.
