Following a violent altercation related to the alleged student abduction in Iguala, dozens of students vanished. Only two of them have been recognized from their bones.
The former justice minister of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, who served as president under Jesus Murillo, has been detained.
He is charged with taking part in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in Mexico City, the nation’s capital.
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On September 26, 2014, students vanished in Mexico’s violent state of Guerrero after police opened fire on the bus carrying them.
To take part in a demonstration for teachers’ rights, the kids had journeyed to Iguala.
According to the police, they opened fire on the bus because it was purportedly being hijacked by students. The third student’s beaten body was discovered the day after two other pupils were shot to death.
the aftermath of 43 pupils being missing. Since then, just two of the missing students have been declared officially dead based on Remains Found.
According to a report issued by the Mexican government in January 2015, the Guerreros Unidos criminal organization was tasked with finding the missing pupils after they were transferred to a police station. The group murdered the students, burned their corpses in the vicinity of the Cocula landfill, and dumped the remnants in the neighboring river.
Murillo, the justice minister at the time, referred to the state’s study as “historical reality,” although his assertions have subsequently been refuted by a number of professional associations.
Experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights declared that the report created by the Mexican government was seriously defective a year after the students vanished.
Murillo is not the only person detained in connection with the skein probe. A Mexican court reportedly issued arrest warrants on Friday for a total of 83 people who are allegedly connected to the student disappearances in 2014, according to CNN.
Twenty army military leaders, 11 police officers from the state of Guerrero, five state administrators and judges, and 14 members of the gang Guerreros Unidos are among those detained.
The renowned gang is charged with organized crime, kidnapping, torture, murder, and crimes against the legal system, according to the prosecutor’s office.