The arrest
Víctor Rodríguez Padilla, former head of Petróleos Mexicanos, was arrested on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 7, in the Narvarte neighborhood, Benito Juárez mayor’s office. Elements of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City arrested him at 5:32 p.m. on 20 Monte Albán Street, in front of a cafe, according to the National Detention Registry.
The former official, 1.78 meters tall, with white skin and white hair, was wearing a white shirt and dress pants. He was placed at the disposal of the Common Public Prosecutor’s Office without the crime being specified in the record.
The complaint
Rodríguez Padilla is accused of family violence. His wife, nuclear engineer María Felicia Jiménez Lavie, reported the physical attacks she suffered and requested protection through a video broadcast on the networks. In her testimony to EL UNIVERSAL, she reported that the attack on March 15 — captured on recordings — was not an isolated event, but rather the highest point of an escalation that began in 2022 with verbal and physical abuse, including an incident where her husband stabbed her with a pen in her hand.
“First there were verbal insults, then a slap, pushing, but like this one, which was very brutal, I even had a lot of pain when walking for several days,” said the complainant.
On June 29, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo called for the full weight of the law to be applied to complaints of family violence. He pointed out that, since the events occurred in Morelos, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Morelos will investigate the case and determine the criminal sanction. “No one will be protected from an act like this,” said the president.
