Overview
- Extended hearings continued this week without vinculación a proceso, with the state court’s president stating the evidentiary record requires exhaustive review.
- On January 13 prosecutors filed differentiated charges against eight individuals and the company for negligent homicide, abortion, injuries, property damage, use of a false document, and failure to fulfill a legal duty.
- A judge ordered preventive detention for company representative Jose Luis “N,” but the measure was not executed due to an amparo suspension.
- Authorities reported 25 arrest warrants, seven executed to date, with some detainees released to allow defense review or due to amparo rulings, and the burned store remains under custody.
- Three people with executed warrants must appear January 29, roughly a dozen defendants have suspensions from amparo proceedings, two are considered evading justice, and some victims have asked judicial overseers to review earlier releases.