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Defence of Human Rights of the Distrito Federal Office of the Attorney
General.
58.2.3
On February 04, 1994, the Directorate General for Legal
Affairs of the Distrito Federal Office of the Attorney General sent to the
Office of the Internal Comptroller of that institution the information
provided by the National Human Rights Commission, and expressed
that “based on the analysis of the documents in possession of [such]
Office of the Supervisor, it is concluded that there could be actions
that could be construed as undue acts committed by public servants of
[the] institution in the course of preliminary investigation
10a/2160/92-05.” It requested that an investigation be carried out on
the facts denounced and “should any probable responsibility on the
part of personnel [of the Prosecutorial Agency and the Judicial Police of
Distrito Federal] be determined, apart from establishing whichever
administrative responsibility would apply […] it will bring the matter to
the knowledge of the Prosecutorial Agency agent to start the
respective preliminary investigation and, if applicable, also the
respective penal action against those responsible.”
58.2.4
On October 14, 1994, the Office of the Internal Comptroller
of the Distrito Federal Office of the Attorney General decided that Mr.
Sotero Galván-Gutiérrez was administratively responsible for
“neglecting to comply with his obligation to safeguard the legality and
honesty with which he should act, by having committed acts that
implied abuse or undue performance of his duties; having arbitrarily
detained [Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo], […] not showing good
behavior at work;
not respecting the principles of legality and
constitutionality […]; not […] abstaining from the use of force; and
not safeguarding the basic rights of [Mr. Martín-del-Campo].” In like
manner, such Office of the Comptroller decided that public servants
Juan Marcos Badillo-Sarabia and Delfino Javier Zamora-Cortés were
not administratively responsible for the faults attributed to them.
58.2.5
On March 13, 1995, the Office of the Internal Comptroller of
the Distrito Federal Office of the Attorney General informed the
General Directorate of Preliminary Investigations about the
administrative decision adopted in order that it, if applicable, act
according to the powers of such General Directorate.
58.2.6
On March 22, 1995, the General Directorate of Preliminary
Investigations sent the communication of the Office of the Internal
Comptroller of the Distrito Federal Office of the Attorney General to
the head of the Reports and Complaints Desk and instructed him to
record and slate it for prosecution as regards their alleged
responsibility as public servants of the institution in the course of
preliminary investigation 10a/2160/92-05.
58.2.7
On March 29, 1995, Ms. Bessie Dodd-Burke, the mother of
the alleged victim, requested the General Directorate of Preliminary
Investigations to carry out investigations on the officials that took part
on his son’s indictment, since they acted “contrary to the law and were