Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on Friday to
"punish those responsible"
, soldiers and police involved in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, the day after the report of a commission of inquiry which qualifies this affair as a
"crime of State".
"Making this atrocious and inhuman situation public, and at the same time punishing those responsible, makes it possible to prevent these deplorable events from happening again"
and
"strengthens the institutions"
, declared Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who had set up this commission.
"Corruption"
"What weakens an institution is that it does not act in accordance with the truth and that there is corruption, impunity,"
he added during a trip to Tijuana in the northwest. from the country.
According to the head of the commission of inquiry, the Deputy Minister of the Interior Alejandro Encinas, these soldiers and agents of the federal police have by
"their actions, omissions or participations allowed the disappearance and the execution of the students, as well than the murder of six other people”
by the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel.
Further investigation is needed to establish to what extent members of the armed forces are involved, he added Thursday during the presentation of the report.
On the night of September 26 to 27, 2014, a group of students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training school went to the nearby town of Iguala (south) to
"requisition"
buses in order to to go to Mexico City, for a demonstration.
According to the official investigation presented in 2015 by the government of Enrique Pena Nieto (2012-2018), 43 young people were arrested by local police, then cartel members shot them and cremated their bodies in a landfill.
Only the remains of three of them could be identified.
This version of the facts, which attributed no responsibility to the military, was rejected by relatives as well as by independent experts.
At the end of March, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador revealed that Navy officials suspected of having manipulated evidence were being investigated.
He denied that authorities were withholding material information about the case, which drew international condemnation.
