Mexican Prosecutor’s Office detains seven policemen related to the Ayotzinapa Case

Seven police officers from the state of Guerrero, southern Mexicoand two agents of the municipality of Equal towere arrested this Wednesday for allegedly having participated in the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in September 2014, federal and state authorities reported.

According to reports, the arrest occurred around noon, but the fact was confirmed at night by the Secretary of Public Security of Guerrero (SSPG), which through a statement announced its collaboration with the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR).

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“An arrest warrant was executed against nine public servants for their alleged responsibility in the disappearance of the 43 students from the Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa school in September 2014,” confirmed the SSPG.

The agency specified that the arrest was in charge of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) and that it will be the FGR who provides more information about the arrests.

In the security operation Agents from the Mexican Secretary of the Navy also participated.

According to reports, the State Police agents were detained while participating in a course at the facilities of the Police University (Unipol) in the city of Chilpancingocapital of the state of Guerrero.

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After their arrest, the agents were transferred to the facilities of the FGR delegation, where surveillance was maintained by agents of the Navy and the AIC, who occupied vehicles of the same State Police.

No details were given regarding the arrest of the Iguala police, a municipality in the northern region of Guerrero where the events were recorded in September 2014.

it transpired that there are other arrest warrants to be executed against members of the same corporations in the next few hours.

In March 2022, the retired military man was arrested in Nayarit Leonardo Vazquez Perez, who was the Secretary of Public Security of Guerrero during the events in Iguala; The FGR accuses him of his alleged relationship with the criminal group Guerreros Unidos, accused of participating in the attack on the students in Iguala.

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The controversy over the disappearance of the 43 students was revived last year, on its eighth anniversary, by the report of the Truth Commission, which presumed dead. Some time later, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) pointed out inconsistencies.

While the person in charge of the Truth Commission, Alejandro Encinasrecognized “that much of what was presented as new and crucial evidence could not be verified as real”, according to a note from The New York Times.

According to the version of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), the so-called “historical truth”, corrupt police officers arrested the 43 students and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which murdered and incinerated them in the Cocula dump and threw the remains in the San Juan River.

The Administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has denied this “truth” by agreeing with relatives and the GIEI, which pointed out that the bodies could not be burned in that place.

Source: Elcomercio

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