Three soldiers detained in the case of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa

( Spanish) — Three soldiers were arrested for their alleged participation in the case of the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico’s Undersecretary of Public Security, Ricardo Mejía, reported at a press conference.

He added that among those arrested was “the commander of the 27th Infantry Battalion when the events in Iguala occurred” on September 26, 2014, retired General José Rodríguez Pérez.

The official did not detail what he is accused of. does not know if he has a defense or how he declares himself in the case.

At the press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the undersecretary specified that a total of four arrest warrants were issued against elements of the Mexican Army.

Mejía did not detail the identities of the other two people arrested, nor of the fourth person with an arrest warrant.

is trying to obtain the position of the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) regarding these arrests.

Authorities indicated that the disappearance of the young people was “a State crime” in which members of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group “and agents from various institutions of the Mexican State” participated.

The Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas, pointed out that municipal, state and federal authorities “had knowledge of the mobilization of the students” since they left the Isidro Burgos Normal School in Iguala, Guerrero, until his disappearance.

With prior information from Ángel Nakamura