The legal representative of 14 families of victims of the collapse of Line 12 of the CDMX Collective Metro System reported that a reparation agreement had been reached with Grupo Carso, however, he confirmed that a legal dispute had already been initiated against ICA, Alstom and CAF, construction companies.
Lawyer Cristopher Estupiñan explained that yesterday a criminal complaint was filed with the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJCDMX) against the ICA company for injuries and wrongful death.
The defense explained that these legal acts are due to possible negligence in the design of the work, since it explained that the work fell because it was executed based on a manual with endless serious errors, omissions and deficiencies in engineering. civil.
“ICA will suffer the most serious legal consequences for its negligence, because it has not had the human decency or the social responsibility as a company to face this situation and show its face. Therefore, we have already gone to international courts, we will go to local courts and we will not rest until it assumes its responsibility before the families, ”he said.
Legal actions in the US
The defense attorney revealed that, since last February, a civil lawsuit has been filed with the Superior Court of the state of New York, for moral damages based on the negligence that existed on the part of the construction companies.
“On the one hand, ICA whose negligence was an incorrect design that does not meet international standards and does not conform to the necessary parameters required by a work of this nature. And we are also pointing to Alstom and CAF. In this case Grupo Carso managed to reach an agreement, so it is not in the lawsuit filed in the US”, he detailed.
Cristopher Estupiñan affirmed that there is a “notorious collusion” between the capital prosecutor’s office and ICA, since he indicated that there are very objective and forceful elements in the investigation folder that point to the responsibility of the supervisory companies and ICA.
“And since there is no disposition of the prosecution to investigate ICA, we promoted a control hearing, but unfortunately there is also no disposition of the Superior Court of Justice of the CDMX to force the Public Ministry to investigate, so much so that said hearing concluded with a folder investigation initiated against us,” he stressed.
With regard to the reparation agreement of Grupo Carso with the victims, the defense confirmed that in multiple cases of injuries they achieved an improvement in compensation of up to 250% of the proposals initially made.
On the other hand, the victims’ lawyer revealed that they are requesting, through the Comptroller of the CDMX, compensation for each of the victims for the capital’s government’s patrimonial responsibility.
He explained that the first request that they already presented compensation for 110 million pesos that corresponds to only one of the families of the deceased.