After several years stuck in court, he has received the first sentence. A Court of the State of Puebla has sentenced the PRI Expolitic Javier López Zavala for family violence for the grievance of lawyer Cecilia Monzón, murdered in Puebla on May 21, 2022. The sentence, which has been made known while the trial for feminicide continues, arrives three years after the murder of Monzón and throws light to the long fight that the family has fought during these years in court.
“This ruling represents a significant step in the struggle for justice for Cecilia, lawyer and tireless activist who denounced in life the acts of violence she suffered and whose voice continues to resonate in our search for truth and reparation,” said his sister, Helena Monzón, after making the sentence known.
The Court of Procedure with state jurisdiction of Puebla has issued the conviction, after an oral trial that began in April last year and suffered multiple delays as a result of those for the defense of the former politician. It is expected that the hearing will be held on May 30 to set the penalty, in accordance with the Criminal Code of the State of Puebla.
It is one of the keys to the search for justice that his family undertook, since it was Cecilia Monzón who filed the complaint for that crime against the father of his son and former sentimental partner – then one of the most influential politicians in Puebla. A short time later, the lawyer and activist was shot dead while driving her truck in the city of Cholula.
“Our path to justice does not end here, because the individualization of the penalty and judgment for the feminicide of Cecilia, an atrocious crime for which we demand the maximum penalty of 60 years in prison for those responsible for those responsible for those responsible for those responsible for those responsible,” said the family of the victim through a statement. “These three years have been like prolonging my daughter’s death,” said his mother in. “The easy thing would have been to go with my daughter’s ashes, but we decided to fight,” said Cecilia Pérez. In the middle of the Calvary, to find justice, this Tuesday’s decision has been received with joy by the family.
Through her social networks, Helena Monzón, who has made permanent activism after her sister’s feminicide, has informed of the details of the legal process that she and her family face since 2022. The case has since turned around three axes: femicide, the complaint for family violence and the struggle of Cecilia’s parents for staying with the custody of her six -year -old son. López Zavala, who was former candidate for the governorship of Puebla and right hand of Governor Mario Marín (2006-2011), is indicated as the main suspect of ordering two other men the murder of the lawyer.
The head of the Federal Government Women’s Secretariat, Citlalli Hernández, has held the sentence through the afternoon of this Tuesday. “We accompany the demand for #Justice to have the family and trust that the Judicial Power of the State of Puebla continues to act attached to the law and with a gender perspective,” he wrote.
The feminicide of Cecilia Monzón outraged Mexican society and aroused strong support from feminist groups, friends and family. Also by people who were represented by the lawyer, mainly women, in cases of family violence and gender violence. In 2023 the so -called “Monzón Law” was approved, a modification of the Criminal Code that withdraws parental authority from feminicides under the premise that whoever kills a woman cannot be a good father. 11 states of the country have that change in their legislation.
Now a court has taken the first step to prove that the murder of Cecilia Monzón was not an isolated event and that could be related to other violence that the lawyer had denounced long ago. On that occasion e. Only after death, a judge took into consideration the complaint that the lawyer put before the prosecution for family violence. “First condemnation. We are going for femicide now,” He Helena Monzón reiterated, who said “feeling at peace” with this first verdict.
