Trial begins for hot air balloon pilot for homicide and injuries

() — The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM) reported this Sunday in a statement that the pilot of an aircraft that crashed on April 1 in the municipality of Teotihuacán, was linked to a legal process for the crimes of homicide and injuries.

In a hearing held this day before the Control Judge based in Almoloya de Juárez, that authority determined to initiate legal proceedings against this individual for the crime of homicide to the detriment of two people, a man and a woman, and injuries against a teenager.

It also established that the precautionary measure of pretrial detention prevails and the Jurisdictional Body declined jurisdiction to the Agent of the Public Ministry of federal jurisdiction, for being acts within its jurisdiction.

The crimes for which he was accused occurred on the morning of April 1, in the municipality of Teotihuacán, where this subject was operating a hot air balloon that crashed, causing the death of two people and injuries to a teenager.