Family and friends of Melisa Palacios They summon civil society to a march to demand justice for the murder of the university and so that the case is transferred to a court of greater risk.
The tour will begin in the Obelisco Square, at 7.30 pm, and will culminate in the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), on May 4. “Get out of purple and accompany us,” details the call.
Francisco Chacón, the victim’s uncle, affirms that they hope that the case is no longer known by the Chiquimula judges, because they doubt their impartiality.
The CSJ resolved on April 2 that the criminal chamber must analyze whether the case of Melisa Palacios must be transferred to a court of greater risk.
“Hopefully the criminal chamber can resolve in favor of this process,” says Chacón.
Prosecutor’s Office insists on crime reclassification and transfer of the Melisa Palacios case
A court resolved, in 2021, the change of crime in favor of the alleged perpetrators: María Fernanda Bonilla He modified the crime of murder for homicide in a state of violent emotion; Already his bodyguard, José Luis Marroquín, for his own cover. Since then, there is a pulse between the defense of the syndicates, the judges, and the Public Ministry (MP), together with the victim’s institute, to take the case to a court of greater risk.
The Prosecutor’s Office against the crime of femicide of the MP argues that, in the intermediate stage, the crime of homicide committed in a state of violent emotion can be modified by the murder, which was as initially the prosecution raised its thesis.
“It is evident that, if that had not happened, these criminals were convicted. That is what we request: that a fair trial can be made for the crimes they committed,” says Francisco Chacón.
The uncle of Melisa Palacios indicates that with the march they want to demonstrate to the country, the relatives of other victims and the international community, the impunity that exists in Guatemala.
MP seeks that the case is not known in the court of Chiquimula
The case of Melisa Palacios began in July 2021, in the Court of Zacapa and, according to the MP, due to the change of crime to Bonilla and Marroquín Ovalle, the situation in that judiciary became “tense”.
Manifestations and acts of violence were registered outside the court; The victim’s relatives were attacked, and those circumstances generated that the case be transferred to Chiquimula, where, according to the MP, the situation would be similar.
The judges of that judiciary were challenged by alleged meetings with Flor de María Bonilla Archila, mother of the accused. In addition, these facts were denounced before the MP.
On April 10, the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) did not grant a provisional amparo to the victim’s institute, which sought to separate all the Togados from the Chiquimula Court in the Melisa Palacios case, when doubting their impartiality.
At the discretion of the CSJ, the circumstances of the case do not merit a ruling in favor, because none of the supposed contained in article 28 of the Amparo Law, Personal and Constitutional Exhibition.
“The jurisdictional body had indicated a hearing for September 5, 2024, but the negotiations that Mrs. María Bonilla has made with the judges is that the hearing is celebrated in the month of October of the year 2024, because the judges of that turn will favor the accused within the process,” the complaint details.
According to the victim’s institute, he will appeal the decision of the CSJ before the Constitutional Court (CC).