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By: Real America News Updated 06 Oct 2022, 06: 12 pm EDT
Gerardo Nava Sánchez , former mayor of Zinacantepec, State of Mexico, was sentenced to 42 years and six months in prison for ordering the assassination of José Luis Álvarez Orozco, who served as the first alderman of that municipality.
The sentence was issued after the Public Ministry managed to prove, in an oral trial , his responsibility in the crime of aggravated homicide, to the degree of attempt.
The events occurred on March 6, 2020, when the accused together with his nephew, José Arturo Pichardo Nava, planned the attack against the official.
When Álvarez Orozco left his house and got into his car, driving along one of the main roads that lead to the city of Toluca, was intercepted by four subjects, and one of them shot him three times, leaving him injured.
#Edomex The former mayor Morenista from #Zinacantepec Gerardo Nava Sánchez, was sentenced to 42 years and a half in prison for the crime of attempted homicide to the detriment of the former first alderman of that municipality José Luis Álvarez Orozco pic.twitter.com/kao9TNPkqw
—poloespejel (@poloespejel ) October 6, 2022
Due to the injuries caused, he was hospitalized for three weeks, and was also in recovery more time from home. When giving his statement, he pointed to Nava Sánchez as the possible mastermind of the attack .
The Attorney General of the State of Mexico became aware of the fact and began the corresponding investigations, discovering that the former mayor ordered the attack .
Almost a year after the attack, in January 2021, the former municipal president was detained in the streets of Mexico City. He was transferred and admitted to the Penitentiary and Social Reintegration Center of Santiaguito, in Almoloya de Juárez.
According to the investigations of the Prosecutor’s Office, political differences over the management of the Zinacantepec administration between both public servants were the motive for the attack . It will be next October 12 when it will be done the hearing for the reading and explanation of the sentence and, as of that date, the parties involved in the trial will have 10 days to appeal it.
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