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Mexico: Ayotzinapa students attack the National Palace and leave 26 police officers injured

Students from Ayotzinapa (south of the state of Warrior) this Monday they launched rockets and fireworks against the facade of the Mexican National Palacewhich caused injuries to 26 deployed police officers from the capital.

As explained by the Citizen Security Secretariat of the Government of Mexico City In a statement, paramedics from the Rescue and Medical Emergencies Squad They responded to the agents of the Metropolitan police, Task force it’s from AthensWho “They had injuries, mainly on their legs, arms and buttocks.” because of the shrapnel from the pyrotechnics.

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The injured, who were sent to the Skirting boarddue to the presence of protesters”, they were transferred to different hospitals to receive proper medical care.

The student protests take place after, last Thursday, a court in the state of Mexico granted provisional freedom to eight soldiers involved in the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in September 2014.

The court considered the preventive detention of the soldiers unnecessary and unjustified, although the National guard argued that there is a “high”flight risk.

For the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Prodh Center) this release occurred due to a “partial and biased criteria”.

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He Prodh Center and organizations Found, Talchinollan It is SeraPazwho also followed the investigation, accused the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) from “continue litigating on behalf of the soldiers accused in the Ayotzinapa casewhich increases his reluctance to hand over all the documents in his archives”.

Demonstrations over the events in Ayotzinapa have increased ahead of the June 2 elections, as current students and families of the missing accuse the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorto protect the soldiers involved and not fulfill his promise to solve the case.

The statement from the capital’s government reported that the concentrates, “after making your public expression”, they left the place.

Source: Elcomercio

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