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Dozens of abducted students in Mexico: Third victim identified

2021-06-19T04:19:52.862Z


In 2014, dozens of students in Mexico were abducted and allegedly killed in unexplained circumstances. A third body has now been identified using DNA analysis.


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Memorial event for the missing students in Iguala, Mexico (archive image)

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Almost seven years after 43 students were abducted in Mexico, another victim was identified.

Forensic doctors in Innsbruck, Austria, succeeded in clearly assigning the lumbar vertebrae of a missing person using a DNA test.

As the special unit of the Mexican attorney general announced, the bone belonged to Jhosivani Guerrero - the third student identified.

On the night of September 27, 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college were abducted by police in Iguala in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero and handed over to the criminal gang Guerreros Unidos. According to initial investigations, the young men were killed and burned in a garbage dump. However, independent research has shown that there is not enough evidence for this. The background to the crime has not yet been clarified. Dozens of suspects were arrested, including the then mayor and the Iguala police chief. So far, however, no one has been convicted.

A bone fragment was most recently assigned to one of the students last July. This was discovered in a ravine around 20 kilometers from the kidnapping site - as was Jhosivani Guerrero's vertebral bone. The attorney general's office had already announced the identification of Guerrero's remains in 2015, which had been discovered in the garbage dump. However, the results of the DNA samples were inconclusive. The then chief investigator of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Tomás Zerón, is now being wanted with an arrest warrant and has fled abroad.

More than 88,000 people are believed to have disappeared in Mexico. Mass graves are discovered again and again, and many more are suspected. On average, there are almost 100 murders a day in the North American country. Most of the violence is perpetrated by drug cartels and other criminal groups, often linked to corrupt politicians and security forces. Impunity is also a major problem in Mexico. According to the National Statistics Institute, more than 90 percent of the offenses are not even reported. According to the IEP think tank, only about three percent of the reported crimes are cleared up.

Source: spiegel

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