The prosecutor of the 'Ayotzinapa case' resigns after the open conflict with Gertz Manero

The special prosecutor for the

, Omar Gómez Trejo, has submitted his resignation, after a month of pressure and clashes with Alejandro Gertz, head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR).

As EL PAÍS has learned, Gómez Trejo decided to leave his position weeks ago, a decision that he had already communicated to the families of the 43 and his lawyers, with whom he maintained a relationship of trust.

The FGR has not informed about it.

The disagreement between the two comes from mid-August.

Then, the Attorney General of the Republic demanded that Gómez Trejo bring the case against Jesús Murillo Karam before the judge.

First in charge of the investigations after the attack on normalist students in Iguala, in September 2014, the FGR accuses Murillo of torture, forced disappearance and obstruction of justice.

Although Murillo was a medium-term objective of the Special Investigation and Litigation Unit for the Ayotzinapa case (UEILCA), Gómez Trejo asked Gertz for a month, to present the case to the court.

The attorney general refused and removed the UEILCA.

Gertz put the first hearings of the Murillo case in the hands of the Special Prosecutor for Internal Affairs.

So far, the reason for Gertz's haste in bringing the

before the judge is unknown.

The relationship from then on was complicated.

Internal Affairs occupied the UEILCA and the decisions on the case of the 43 students ceased to be in the hands of the unit.

An example of the above was the cancellation of 21 of the 83 arrest warrants obtained by the unit in mid-August.

On September 7, the FGR asked to cancel them.

In addition, Gertz left the unit without ministerial police officers, preventing his normal work.

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