“I don't have millions to go to Canada,” Rosario Robles defends

It has been more than 10 hours. In front of her were her daughter Mariana, the judge, the prosecutors, her lawyers and a paper tower. So, Rosario Robles It was Direct by asking not to be taken to prison.

After engaging in a tense, rough, violent dialogue with prosecutors, he was frank: “I don't have a heritage that allows me to run away from justice. I don't have millions of pesos to go to live in Canada. ”

On the point that the judge decided to link the former secretary of Social development, he defended himself, although for some it sounded like a plea: "My only bank account is frozen and when I talk about giving my face it is because I have always given it (…) there is no reason to request that precautionary measure from the Public Ministry."

At the gates of South Prison Time becomes eternal. There is almost no movement. Have passed more than 10 hours since Rosario Robles arrived to continue with the initial process binding hearing that was cited at the request of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) that accuses her of improper exercise of public service.

The hearing began at six in the afternoon, but she arrived an hour before dressed in white with a scarf around her neck: "As I have always told you, with your skirts on, taking the bull by the horns and giving your face," He said.

It was a long diligence. In which at some point the judge Felipe de Jesús Delgadillo reprimanded prosecutors and the defense was screened again and again in which Robles reported the anomalies to the then president Enrique Peña Nieto and to his successor José Antonio Meade.

The record of the delivery-reception of the Sedesol was mentioned, which would be in charge of Meade Kuribreña: "This is a jewel and they did not bring it by chance," said the judge. Afterwards it would be clear that they did not deliver any trade that proved that Peña knew about the detours.

At 3:48 hours Robles Berlanga lived one of the hardest moments. The judge began to present the arguments of the order of connection to the process that he dictated against him. By 4:56 the die was cast.

The FGR requested the justified preventive detention because it considered that it represents a risk of escape: “He no longer has the protective mantle of impunity he had with Enrique Peña Nieto when he said:‘ Don't worry Rosario ’”.

After 7:00 hours she was taken to the Santa Martha prison, where Miss Monica, La Mataviejitos, and the hit house of Plaza Artz are located.

On his first day in Santa Martha he received his lawyers headed by Julio Hernández Barros and his relatives.

There, the ex-head of the then Federal District Government was located in the entrance area of ​​the prison, a controlled access area, where she will be monitored 24 hours a day by female security and custody personnel, as well as by surveillance cameras.

"He is hurt by the Judiciary because of the way his right to be presumed innocent was violated … he is sad, but strong, solid, with some reassurance of being innocent," says his lawyer.

She was brought blankets, toiletries and various foods. Yesterday was his first night in prison.