Ayotzinapa: student protest leaves 24 police officers injured and 11 cars set on fire in southern Mexico

At least 20 National Guard (GN) agents from Mexico and 4 ministers from the state of Guerrero, in the south of the country, were injured this Tuesday in the protest by students in Ayotzinapa against the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), where 11 vehicles were also burned.

O FGE of Warrior reported in a statement the outcome of the protest by young people, who demonstrated after the escape of a state police officer accused of killing one of his colleagues, Yanqui Kothan Gómezas marches intensify to demand justice for the 43 disappeared from Ayotzinapa in 2014.

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Agents in anti-riot equipment guard the facilities of the Prosecutor’s office since Friday after the murder last Thursday of Gómez at a Guerrero Police checkpointbut this Tuesday they were surpassed by the normalists of Ayotzinapa and the Federation of Socialist Peasant Students of Mexico (FECSM).

Protesters They threw fireworks and homemade bombs at the police to enter the premises, and the barbs stuck into the agents, who took shelter in the premises.

“The unjustified attacks launched by normalists today to this autonomous body, since this Public Prosecutor’s Office has acted in an objective and impartial manner, respecting the rights of the victim’s family members”, stated the FGE.

The demonstration took place after the president’s morning conference, Andrés Manuel López Obradorwho stated that The accused agent fled with the alleged complicity of local authorities, although two other officers involved remain in custody.

But Guerrero Public Ministry He assured in his bulletin that he never detained the state police officers accused of the attack on the students on Thursday, March 7.

And he argued that he sent the investigation folder to Attorney General’s Office (FGR) integrated with testimonials and more than 20 expert opinions, videos and evidence collected by state authorities.

“It should be clarified that this justice administration body does not carry out administrative arrests, therefore it must be clarified which authority kept the aforementioned State officials under protection,” he stated.

In the midst of the presidential campaign for the June 2 elections, students intensified their demonstrations because López Obrador did not solve the case of the 43 young people from Ayotzinapa who disappeared in Guerrero in September 2014.

Last week, normalistas broke down a door at the National Palace while the president was inside.who is accused of protecting the soldiers involved, as the Truth Commission he created concluded in 2022 that it was a “State crime” in which the Army also participated.

Source: Elcomercio

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