The day after an international investigation announced the deaths of the 43 Ayotzinapa students abducted in 2014, the then Attorney General was arrested.
The relative of one of the missing students, Raul Isidro Burgos, holds a picture of him during the release of the report.
(dpa)
In the case of the 43 missing students in Mexico, the former Mexican Attorney General has been arrested. The police have executed an arrest warrant against the former top investigator, the Attorney General announced on Friday. Jesús Murillo Karam was responsible for the initial investigation into the case in 2014. Only on Thursday did a truth commission accuse the authorities of having falsified evidence to cover up the truth.
Murillo Karam is accused of enforced disappearances, torture and crimes against the administration of justice, the statement said. Murillo was arrested at his residence in Mexico City and said he did not resist. According to the initial investigations he led, the students had been killed and burned in a rubbish dump. This thesis was later rejected by independent experts. In addition, witnesses are said to have been tortured.
Corrupt police officers kidnapped the students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in Iguala, Guerrero state, in September 2014 and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos criminal syndicate. Also against soldiers and employees of other authorities is determined. The background of the fact is still not fully elucidated. The Truth Commission had previously declared the students dead and described the case as a “state crime”.