⁍ Mexican authorities have issued dozens of arrest warrants for police and soldiers whom they believe may have participated in the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students.
⁍ Saturday marks the first time in the case Mexican authorities have announced arrest warrants for military personnel.
⁍ The students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College disappeared on September 26, 2014, in the state of Guerrero.
– Mexican authorities say they’ve issued arrest warrants for dozens of police and soldiers believed to have been involved in the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students, Reuters reports. Omar Gomez, head of the special prosecutor’s office for the case, said Saturday that arrest warrants have been issued for “material and intellectual authors” of the crime, including military members and federal and municipal police. The students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, in the state of Guerrero. The remains of only two of the students have been positively identified so far. The unsolved kidnapping of the young men who were training to be teachers convulsed the country, sparking massive protests in 2014 and garnering international condemnation as one of the darkest examples of the government’s longstanding difficulty preventing violence or convicting those responsible. In June, authorities announced the apprehension of the leader of a Guerrero gang accused of involvement in the disappearance, and arrest warrants for Guerrero officials in connection with the case. Family members of the victims have long accused Mexican authorities, including the military, of complicity in the students’ disappearance. “The military participated,” Maria Martinez Zeferino, the mother of one of the disappeared students, said during Saturday’s news conference.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-human-rights-ayotzinapa/mexico-issues-arrest-warrants-on-sixth-anniversary-of-disappearance-of-43-college-students-idUSKBN26H0RP