Mexico drops charges against 4 men, finds they were tortured
Mexico drops charges against 4 men, finds they were tortured
| May 27, 2015 | Updated: May 27, 2015 5:15pm
MEXICO CITY (AP) A judge has freed four men imprisoned for almost seven years on charges they threw hand grenades into a crowd at a Mexican independence day celebration in 2008, killing eight people.
The Federal Judiciary Council said Wednesday that the judge declared the men innocent, ruling three of them had been tortured before signing confessions. The judge further ruled that protected witnesses who accused the fourth suspect of being a leader of the Zetas cartel, which was presumably behind the attack, lacked credibility.
The Zetas and the La Familia cartel were battling over Michoacan at the time. The theory was that the Zetas staged the grenade attack to create problems for La Familia on its home turf.
The men's arrest came under strange circumstances, in which they may have been kidnapped and tortured by the La Familia drug cartel and then handed over to police.
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