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Officers, police and government officials: 83 men were arrested on suspicion of murdering 43 students in Mexico - voila! news

2022-08-21T18:42:41.489Z


In September 2014, dozens of students disappeared after they clashed with the police in the city of Iguala. Young people who survived said that soldiers opened fire on them when they got off the bus. The investigation has already found a mass with dozens of bodies in it. According to one of the conspiracy theories, the mayor's wife was afraid that she would be interrupted during her speech


Officers, police and government officials: 83 men were arrested on suspicion of murdering 43 students in Mexico

In September 2014, dozens of students disappeared after they clashed with the police in the city of Iguala.

Young people who survived said that soldiers opened fire on them when they got off the bus.

The investigation has already found a mass with dozens of bodies in it.

According to one of the conspiracy theories, the mayor's wife was afraid that she would be interrupted during her speech

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08/21/2022

Sunday, August 21, 2022, 12:19 Updated: 21:22

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A court in Mexico this weekend ordered the arrest of 83 suspects in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in the country in 2014.

The arrest warrants were issued against 20 officers, soldiers, policemen, five government officials in the city of Iguala in the state of Guerrero and 14 members of a criminal organization in the area.



In September 2014, students attending a teacher training seminary disappeared after clashing with police in Iguala, plagued by crime and gang violence.

Graves located near the city were opened, with parts of charred bodies in them.

Guerrero's then-general prosecutor, Inaki Blanco, said 28 bodies were found in the mass grave.

Demonstration for the Disappearing Students (Photo: Reuters)

According to one of the theories, the murder of the students was done as a result of the mayor's wife's fear that they would disturb the speech she was supposed to give.

Then, the mayor allegedly ordered gang-linked security services to shoot the students as they got off their buses.



Surviving students said their buses were stopped by police and armed soldiers who suddenly opened fire.

The case sparked international outrage.

The United States and the Organization of American States urged the authorities to find the missing.

"This is a disturbing crime that requires a full and transparent investigation," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at the time.

The families of the disappeared students (Photo: Reuters)

An independent investigative report published in 2016 accused the Mexican government of sabotaging the investigation into the disappearance of the students in the country.

According to the report submitted by the team, the Attorney General's Office in Mexico City did not allow investigators to interview the detainees suspected of committing the crime and prevented them from obtaining more information on the matter.



Also, the Mexican Attorney's Office did not persist in investigative activities in the directions recommended by the inspection team.

"The delays in transferring the evidence, which could have been used to find additional lines of investigation, are essentially interpreted as a decision to allow the guilty to escape punishment," reads the report of the team of investigators, appointed by the Inter-American Committee on Human Rights.



The judge's decision on Friday was released just hours after Mexico's former attorney general, Jose Morelio Crame, was also arrested in connection with the disappearance.

He led the investigation of the state his time.

According to the prosecutor's office, Karam is now a "suspect" in the disappearance.



On Thursday, a committee of the government presented a report in which it concluded that the disappearance of the students was a "crime of the state" in which members of the "criminal group Gurros Unidos and agents from various institutions of the Mexican state" participated.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that the government would continue to work to capture those involved in the crime and find out what happened to the missing students.

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