Judge rejects defendant’s request to reopen accident investigation in L12

A legal representative of the victims of the collapse of the suspension section of Line 12 of the Metro argued that the reopening of the investigation is “an act of bad faith to delay the intermediate stage of the trial.”

Mexico City, February 9 (However).- A judge rejected the application for the reopening of the research on he collapse of the line 12 of the Mexico City Metro (CdMx), which occurred on May 3, 2021 between the Olivos and Tezonco stations.

During the hearing held today, and after six hours in which all the parties presented their arguments, the lawyer Teófilo Benítez, who heads the legal counsel for a group of victims of the accident, opposed the petition.

According to journalist Kevin Ruiz of the newspaper The universal, Benítez argued that the victims consider “an act of bad faith to delay the intermediate stage of the oral trial”; In addition, they expressed their agreement with the investigation carried out by the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ-CdMx).

For his part, lawyer Christopher Estupiñan, who also represents another group of victims of the Line 12 disaster, maintained a neutral position.

“It would have to be discussed whether the investigation period is going to be extended another six months or not at the request of the defense […]It is a right that the defense has in accordance with the National Code of Criminal Procedures”, he explained.

Three months after two years of the collapse of Line 12 of the Metro Collective Transportation System (STC), the FGJ-CdMx determined in an investigation that the causes of the incident were serious construction defects and the inadequate design of the structure. .

The tragedy of the capital’s Metro occurred on the night of May 3, when a beam of an elevated bridge on Line 12, between the Olivos and Tezonco stations, in the southeast of the capital, gave way, causing the fall of a train with passengers that got stuck in a “V” shape.

The accident hit the image of the former Head of Government and current Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, who built the so-called “golden line” in 2012, and of the current Head of Government of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, as both aspire to succeed President Andrés Manuel López Workshop in 2024.