Netflix documentary alerts Mexican authorities to re-investigate a kidnapping case

A Netflix documentary series on Thursday caught the attention of the Government of Mexico, which stares at the sentence for the kidnapping of four people in the southeastern state of Tabasco, where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is from.

“I am aware, I have not seen the series, but I am aware because the governor of Campeche, Layda Sansores, just asked me to intervene because it is considered an injustice “, said the president in this regard in his last daily press conference in 2021.

The series is called “Reasonable doubt”And is directed by Roberto Hernández, who rose to national fame for leading the documentary “Presumed guilty” (2008), which tells the story of Toño Zúñiga, charged with a murder he did not commit.

In this installment, premiered on November 23 on the platform, Hernández recounts the case of Darwin Morales, Héctor Muñoz, Juan Luis López and Gonzalo García, who were arrested in 2015 for kidnapping in the municipality of Macuspana accused of kidnapping.

For the production of the documentary It took five years in which Hernández was able to interview up to 450 prisoners in Tabasco and that is how he found the story of these four people, as he related in different interviews in the Mexican press.

As well as “Presumed Guilty”, “Reasonable doubt” exposes the shortcomings of the Mexican penal system, which only manages to resolve about 5% of the cases that reach the courts, according to official estimates.

The Serie reveals torture, contradictory testimony and the alibi of the accused, who insist that they never kidnapped anyone.

It all started in 2015 with a traffic accident where Héctor was shot in the hand when he claimed the driver of the vehicle that hit him, this character was the one who later declared Before the authorities that exactly the same thing happened but the other way around, and that they were going to kidnap him.

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All four were given a 50 year sentence, despite the fact that there was no evidence beyond the testimony of the other driver.

Only Darwin has managed to get out of prison because his defense proved that he was elsewhere at the time of the events.

The defense stated in 2020 that the Supreme Court take the case without having an answer so far.

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“(We are) looking for justice, because the procedure can be reset, there are ways”Said López Obrador, who commissioned the Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Tabasco with a license, Adán Augusto López, to look closely at the case.

“There are open investigations into officials and former officials in this case of the State Prosecutor’s Office that they were during the years, between 2012 and 2018, and we would be waiting for the judicial authority to issue its decision, “said the Minister of the Interior. (I)