In relation to the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, Mexico’s former attorney general Jess Murillo Karam has been detained by authorities.
Charged bothering on forced disappearance, torture, and obstructing the administration of justice are all charges levied against Jess Murillo Karam, who oversaw an investigation into the incident.
While taking a bus through Iguala on their route to a protest in Mexico City, the teenagers went missing to date. Nothing is known of their demise other than the bone pieces recovered from three of them.
On the evening of September 26, 2014, local police began shooting at buses carrying students; however, what transpired next is in contention.
Widespread demonstrations against impunity and governmental support for organized crime were started in Mexico as a result of their inexplicable disappearance, which shocked the entire globe.
Jesus Murillo Karam, who was detained on Friday, was in charge of a contentious probe into what transpired to the students in 2015 that placed blame on gang leaders who were alleged to have killed them and burned their bodies.
Independent specialists and the family of the missing students criticized his conclusions for flaws and for placing no culpability at all on the armed forces, although they were supported by then-President Enrique Pea Nieto.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), led by Mr. Karam, charged those behind Friday’s arrest of having nefarious motivations in a tweet. The PRI is no longer in power.
He has been detained in connection with the disappearance of the students more than any other high-profile government official to date.
Investigators think the students were taken into custody by dishonest police officers, given to a drug cartel, who mistakenly thought they belonged to a rival group, and then murdered.
A truth committee set up by the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, charged soldiers on Thursday of contributing to the abduction, if not directly, then at least indirectly via incompetence.
‘Their actions, omissions or participation allowed the disappearance and execution of the students,” said Alejandro Encinas, who is the commission’s head as well as Mexico’s deputy interior minister, according to AFP news agency.’
However, he stressed that further investigation was needed to fully understand the function of military Personnel.
President López Obrador disclosed earlier this year that navy personnel were under investigation for allegedly tampering with evidence, including at the landfill where human remains were discovered.
On Friday, he demanded that any soldiers or government agents responsible for the disappearance be brought to justice.
‘Publicizing this atrocious, inhuman situation and at the same time punishing those responsible helps to prevent these deplorable events ever happening again,” the Mexican leader said, according to AFP news agency’
A tragic incident hasn’t that happened in 2014 hasn’t been swept under the carpet in Mexico as Authorities has commenced serious probe into the matter; several people have been held responsible for the disappearance of student including a top official.
