Mexico began prosecuting 116 people in the Ayotzinapa case

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico City, Aug 19 (Prensa Latina) The Mexican government has already began judicial proceedings against 116 people for the disappearance of the 43 student teachers of Ayotzinapa in 2014, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas, reported today.

August 19, 2023
15:28

He revealed the data on social media as part of the dissemination of the work carried out by the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa case and the Special Investigation and Litigation Unit of the Attorney General’s Office.

He explained that of the total number of detainees, 14 are members of the Secretariat of National Defense, among them, a former commander of the 27th Infantry Battalion and one of the 41st Battalion, a captain, a lieutenant and 10 soldiers, plus an individual from the Secretariat of the Navy.

Other people being prosecuted are the former Attorney General of the Republic, Jesús Murillo Karam; the former anti-kidnapping director of the Specialized Deputy Attorney General’s Office for Organized Crime Investigations, Gualberto Ramírez Gutiérrez, and the former public prosecutor of the same agency.

Encinas said that 32 members of the criminal group Guerreros Unidos, 49 municipal police officers have been arrested: two from Cocula, nine from Huitzuco and 38 from Iguala; plus four federal and three federal ministerial police officers, as well as seven state police officers.

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