Students missing in Mexico: the former attorney general arrested, 64 police and soldiers wanted

Published on: 20/08/2022 – 10:33 Mexican justice apprehended Friday Jesus Murillo Karam, the country’s former attorney general, and ordered the arrest of 64 police and military for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of 43 students of Ayotzinapa in 2014. Mexican justice on Friday August 19 ordered the arrest of the former attorney general of the country, as well as 64 police officers and soldiers for the disappearance, in 2014, of 43 students from the normal school of Ayotzinapa, the day after the publication of a report by an official commission which called the case a “state crime”. On Friday evening, former attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam was arrested at his home de Mexico for “enforced disappearance, torture and crimes against the administration of justice”, and did not put up any resistance, the prosecution said in a statement. The prosecution later announced that arrest warrants had been issued. were launched against 20 army officials, 44 p police officers and five civil servants for their alleged involvement in this affair, which had deeply shocked in Mexico and abroad. These 64 police officers and soldiers are wanted for “organized crime, forced disappearance, torture, homicide and offenses against the administration of the justice,” the prosecution said. The identities and rank of those sought were not specified. these disappearances, is a former heavyweight of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who governed Mexico for 71 years without interruption, until 2000. He is the most important personality arrested so far in the context of these disappearances. investigations, which had restarted from scratch after the coming to power in 2019 of leftist President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador. The prosecution also issued arrest warrants against 14 members of the drug trafficking cartel Guerreros Unidos. September 27, 2014, a group of students from the teacher training school in Ayotzinapa, in the southern state of Guerrero, traveled to the nearby town of Iguala to “requisition” buses to to go to Mexico ur a demonstration. According to the investigation, 43 young people were arrested by the local police in collusion with Guerreros Unidos, then shot and burned in a dump for reasons that remain unclear. Only the remains of three of them could be identified. On Thursday, an official report published by the Ayotzinapa Truth Commission set up by Manuel Lopez Obrador estimated that Mexican soldiers had a share of responsibility in this crime. Their actions, omissions or participation enabled the disappearance and execution of the students, as well as the murder of six other people,” Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas said during the public presentation of the report. institutional action was not accredited, but there were clear responsibilities of elements” of the armed forces, he added, without specifying whether these “elements” were still active. Alejandro Encinas has repeatedly called Ayotzinapa’s case a “state crime”. Falsified evidence? Another commission, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which was created under between the Peña Nieto government and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), maintains for its part that soldiers falsified evidence found in the dump where the bodies were burned. The first official investigation, led by Jesus Murillo Karam, whose conclusions were rejected by the families of the victims and by independent experts, did not attribute any responsibility to the military. This version accused a cartel of drug traffickers of having had the students killed by mistaking them for members of a rival gang. deplorables do not happen again” and “strengthens institutions”, said Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday. With AFP