They arrest Murillo Karam, former Attorney General of Mexico 3:32
(CNN Spanish) --
The Second District Court of Federal Criminal Proceedings in the State of Mexico ordered this Friday the capture of 83 people allegedly involved in the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014, reported in a statement the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR).
The orders were issued against "20 military commanders and troop personnel from battalions 27 and 41 in the city of Iguala, as well as five administrative and judicial authorities from the state of Guerrero; 26 police officers from Huitzuco; six from Iguala and one from Cocula; plus 11 state police from Guerrero and 14 members of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group," the press release said.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, they are accused of "organized crime, forced disappearance, torture, homicide and crimes against the administration of justice."
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The FGR did not identify those allegedly involved and only added that both the arrests and the accusations in each case "will be disclosed in the corresponding criminal process."
Until this Saturday, the aforementioned institutions had not made a public statement on the arrest warrants.
CNN asked them for comment and they have not responded.
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The judge's decision was released hours after the Mexican Federal Ministerial Police arrested former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam.
The Prosecutor's Office considers him a suspect of “the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice, in the 'Ayotzinapa' case”.
CNN tries to find out if Murillo Karam has legal representation or how he declares himself before the accusations.
Murillo Karam was in charge of the former Attorney General's Office during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto and at the time directed the investigations into the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Guerrero, which occurred in September 2014.
Both the arrest of the former prosecutor and the issuance of the arrest warrants take place a day after a report was presented by the Truth Commission that is investigating the incident and in which it is concluded that the disappearance of the young people was a "crime." of State in which members of the Guerreros Unidos criminal group and agents of various state institutions attended, according to the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Government of Mexico, Alejandro Encinas, said at a press conference.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Friday that the crimes indicated in the report do not prescribe and that the government will continue to work together with entities such as the FGR to capture those involved in the crime and find out what happened to them. to the normalists.
Karina Maciel contributed to this report.
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