Mexico City 20 Aug : An attorney general from the past of Mexico was arrested in connection to the disappearance of 43 schoolchildren who disappeared 8 years ago in Guerrero state, according to authorities.The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced on Friday that the police had arrested “Jesus Murillo Karam Attorney General of the Republic.
for the crimes of forced disappearance, torture, and obstruction of justice in the case ‘Ayotzinapa” According to DPA news agency.
The former prosecutor of the top court was detained in his residence in Mexico City, the FGR said in an announcement.
On the 26th of September in 2014, 43 teenage men attending a teacher training college in Ayotzinapa disappeared in Iguala, the city of Iguala as they traveled on buses they stole.
They were caught by corrupt police officers, and they were allegedly turned over to the criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos for reasons that aren’t known.
Karam who was Attorney General from December 2012 until February of 2015, was the person responsible for the initial investigation into the case.
The official report at the time stated that their bodies were burned in a garbage dump, but this report of things was later rejected.
The following day, Alejandro Encinas, secretary of state for Human Rights in the Ministry of Interior said that the version of events that the government stated in the past was incorrect and declared the disappearance of the students as a “state crime” with various levels of government institutions involved.
The Mexican government has declared all of the students who are missing dead.
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