‘Israel’ refuses to extradite Mexican official accused of torture due to country’s support of ICC probe

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The occupation state refused to extradite Tomás Zerón, accused of torture and evidence tampering, because of Mexico’s support to an ICC probe into Israel’s war crimes in Palestine, The New York Times cited an Israeli official.

The Mexican authorities have accused Tomás Zerón de Lucio, the former director of Mexico’s equivalent of the F.B.I., of abduction, torture and tampering with evidence in the investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, and of embezzling about $50 million in state funds in another case. Zerón is now seeking political asylum in ‘Israel’, where he has lived for two years.

Meanwhile, human rights organizations and the families of the massacre victims are still seeking the truth about their loved ones’ disappearance in southern Mexico in 2014.

Although the occupation state has not commented publicly on the case, a senior Israeli official said that it was being slow-walked as “tit-for-tat diplomacy” against Mexico, which has supported United Nations inquiries into allegations of Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people, according to the NYT report.

“Why would we help Mexico?” the official said, speaking to NYT on condition of anonymity to offer a candid view of a diplomatic dispute. He added that Zerón’s asylum claim was still being investigated.

As one of the nation’s top law enforcement officers, Zerón led the investigation into the kidnapping and presumed massacre of 43 students from a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, in Guerrero state, on Sept. 26, 2014. The students were forced off buses by municipal police officers in the city of Iguala, taken away in police vehicles and never seen again.

The case shocked the country and has become a symbol of corruption in its justice system.