Alleged Ayotzinapa students burn two National Guard patrols in southern Mexico

Alleged students of Ayotzinapa They burned two National Guard patrols in the municipality of Tixtla, in the state of Guerrero, in southern Mexico, and detained around 10 agents, as part of the protests triggered by the murder of their Yankee colleague Kothan Gómez Peralta, on Thursday night.

The event took place after the tribute to the body present which took place at the Normal Rural facilities Raúl Isidro Burgos from Ayotzinapa, and later the funeral in the same municipality; In both places, normalistas warned that their protests over the death of their 23-year-old colleague would continue.

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Later, a group of young people with their faces covered set up a checkpoint on the federal highway. Chilpancingo-Chilapa, Where did the two trucks stop? and detained at least 10 agents who occupied them; At that moment, the agent who was in the group was released.

The national guards were transferred to the normal school on the buses used by the normalistas and then the patrols were set on fire with explosive devices. The police officers’ service rifles were left at the scene.

Traffic on the road remained disrupted while both patrol cars were burned, resulting in a total loss.

Photograph of a National Guard (GN) patrol set on fire by supposed normalista students this Saturday in the municipality of Tixtla, state of Guerrero (Mexico) | Photo: EFE/José Luis de la Cruz

In the Guerrero capital, Chilpancingo, security at state government offices has been tightened since Thursday night following the incident, described as accidental.

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On Friday afternoon, Yanqui Kothan’s mother revealed that her son’s autopsy confirmed that he had not consumed drugs, alcoholic beverages or fired a weapon, how it was officially treated.

She said she was one of the parents of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 and that her fight for justice was just beginning.

This Saturday the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) and the Guerrero Public Security Secretariat They issued separate statements indicating that the investigation remains ongoing and that they were the only ones authorized to provide official information.

In its case, the FGE maintained that it is investigating the state police for the qualified homicide of the Ayotzinapa student on March 7 and detailed that the progress will be communicated to the FGR, as it decided to bring the case, following a request from the Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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The first report indicated that the homicide of the young man from Ayotzinapa occurred in an exchange of firearms, after the state police asked them to stop a white van, with an alleged robbery report.

However, the FGR specified that the Public Ministry of the Mexican Federation has sufficient evidence of crimes of violation of human rights, which is why it proceeded to attract a local investigation to “assume full federal jurisdiction in this matter”.

Source: Elcomercio