MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican judge ruled there was enough evidence to try the country’s former attorney general, Jesus Murillo, for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 and the investigation that s ensued, judicial authorities announced on Wednesday.
Jesus Murillo, detained on Friday in what is the first major arrest in the case, is charged with torture, enforced disappearance and obstruction of justice.
As attorney general, he oversaw the much-criticized investigation into the incident in which 43 students went missing in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero.
The arrest of Jesus Murillo came after the national human rights commissioner last week denounced the disappearance of the students as “a state crime”, he said was one of the worst human rights violations in the world. country’s history.
International experts have in the past decried the investigation supervised by Jesus Murillo, saying they see a number of errors and abuses, including the torture of witnesses.
(Report Diego Ore, with Raul Cortes; French version Jean Terzian)
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