Authorities in Mexico announced Wednesday the arrest of nine police officers for their alleged responsibility with the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa normalista students, kidnapped and killed in 2014.
The Secretariat of Public Security of Guerrero has informed, through a statement, that the Criminal Investigation Agency has fulfilled an arrest warrant against seven members of the National Police and two police officers of the Iguala municipality »for that unfortunate case».
With these arrests, a total of 15 people have been arrested in the last year for allegedly being perpetrators of the kidnapping and death of the students in September 2014, as reported by the newspaper ‘El Sol de Mexico’.
In addition, in August 2022, Mexico’s former prosecutor Jesus Murillo Karam (2012-2015) was indicted for enforced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice, days after the Mexican government acknowledged that »there is no indication» that the students who disappeared outside Iguala (Guerrero) are still alive.
The attack against the 43 youths on the night of September 26-27, 2014 has for years symbolized the impunity of armed groups and their collusion with public institutions. Clues point to the Guerreros Unidos organization, but also to the intervention of security forces.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
