The Mexican authorities arrested this Friday the prosecutor who was in charge of the investigation of the 43 disappeared students in Ayotzinapa in 2014, one day after a Truth Commission created to clarify the fact described it as “a State crime”.
According to local media, the person arrested was former Attorney General Jesús Murillo, reported the Reuters agency, which said that the Mexican Attorney General’s office had not responded to his comment on the case.
On Thursday, the Truth Commission presented a report on what happened eight years ago, saying that it sees responsibility in the Army for not having acted, despite the fact that one of the young men was a soldier who infiltrated the student group and knew what was going on. happening.
The commission also reactivated the hypothesis that the crime is linked to heroin trafficking in the area.
Alejandro Encinas, Undersecretary of the Interior and President of the Commission, confirmed that there are no indications that the young people may still be alive, and announced that Mexico has offered Tomás Zerón, the highest ranking former official involved in the case and a fugitive in Israel, an agreement to collaborate with the justice system by providing information that can clarify the facts.
On September 26, 2014, police from the city of Iguala, in the state of Guerrero, captured a group of student teachers from the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa with the participation of other security forces and criminals in the area.
According to the version of the government of former President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), the young people were handed over to organized crime, which murdered them, incinerated the 43 bodies in a garbage dump in a neighboring municipality, Cocula, and threw the remains into a nearby river. .
Both the international experts protected by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, who continue to collaborate with the investigation, and the current prosecutor’s office denied the version of the garbage dump and insisted that the 43 students did not disappear together, but in various groups.
However, they confirmed the identification of three students through charred bone remains. They also claimed that federal officials tortured witnesses and manipulated evidence to obstruct justice.
Encinas stressed that the thousands of new documents analyzed confirm not only those points, but that it was a “state crime” organized “from the highest level of government,” which altered the crime scenes and concealed not only the links of authorities with the criminal group but also the participation of state agents, security forces and the administration of justice in the disappearance of the students.
He also said that the Army is responsible, at least, “by action, omission or negligence” in the case because one of the disappeared youths was an infiltrated soldier whom his commanders did not look for, although they had real-time information on his situation, and that inaction went against the current protocols.
In the past, the Army has argued that it failed to act because the police were in charge of the situation and it was not their responsibility to get involved.
The Secretary of Defense did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment.
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