Mexico City, Aug 7 (EFE) A member of Mexico’s Supreme Court decided to temporarily suspend his account on social-networking site Facebook after revealing details of an important case.
“Dear friends! The experience of being close to you on this social networking site has been very enriching. However, to avoid misunderstandings, I’ve decided to temporarily deactivate my account,” Justice Genaro David Gongora Pimentel said Wednesday on his Facebook page.
“See you on the first of December,” he said, referring to the date of his retirement after 15 years on his nation’s highest court.
He made the decision a day after posting the confidential content of colleague Sergio Salvador Aguirre Anguiano’s draft opinion on the fire at the ABC day care in the northern state of Sonora, which claimed the lives of 49 children.
That opinion, which was reviewed Thursday by the other justices, recommended that the Supreme Court, in the case of the day care blaze, not exercise its constitutionally granted authority to investigate cases of serious human rights violations.
“The draft recommends not exercising (the court’s) investigative authority because probes are already underway by the competent authorities,” Gongora said Tuesday on his Facebook page.
On Thursday, the justices decided against Aguirre’s recommendations, voting 8-3 to create a panel to investigate whether serious rights violations occurred in the ABC fire, Mexico City daily El Universal reported.
The investigation into the blaze has shown that the owners of the day care ignored several official warnings concerning safety problems at the facility.
However, complaints that the investigation is being marred by corruption and impunity have also surfaced since the owners of the establishment were identified by the press to be relatives of prominent politicians.
