43 students missing: Former Mexico Attorney General arrested

In the case of the 43 students who disappeared in Mexico, the former Mexican attorney general was arrested. Police executed an arrest warrant against the former lead investigator, the attorney general said on Friday. Jesús Murillo Karam was responsible for the initial investigation of the case in 2014. It was not until Thursday that a truth commission accused the authorities of having falsified evidence to cover up the truth. The Truth Commission also declared the students dead and called the case a “crime of state”.

Murillo Karam is accused of enforced disappearances, torture and offenses against the administration of justice, according to the statement. Murillo was arrested at his Mexico City residence and said he could not resist. According to the initial investigations he led, the students were killed and burned in a garbage dump. This thesis was later rejected by independent experts. In addition, witnesses would have been tortured.

The criminals were corrupt cops

Corrupt police officers kidnapped students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training school in Iguala, Guerrero state, in September 2014 and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos criminal syndicate. Also against soldiers and officials of other authorities is determined. The background of the fact is not yet fully elucidated. The Attorney General’s Office will continue to work to hold those responsible to account, head of state Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday in the northern city of Tijuana at his daily press conference. “We have said from the beginning that we are telling the truth, however painful it may be,” said López Obrador.

The boys’ parents wanted to thoroughly review the truth commission report before commenting. The content was too difficult for them, said the human rights organization Centro Prodh. Until now, students had been searched with the assumption that they might still be alive.

The Commission was created almost four years ago. It is made up of government officials, student families and professionals.