Eight soldiers have been taken into police custody nearly nine years after 43 students were abducted and reportedly murdered in southern Mexico. They would have participated in the kidnapping. Four other members of the armed forces are already in custody, including a commander who allegedly ordered the murder of six of the young men.
Arrest warrants have been issued against eight other soldiers, Interior Ministry Secretary Alejandro Encinas announced on Twitter on Monday. On the night of September 27, 2014, corrupt police officers kidnapped the students of the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in the city of Iguala and handed them over to the criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The background of the fact has not yet been fully clarified. Only pieces of bone have been found and identified from three of the young men.
In August last year, a truth commission described the act as a state crime and declared the students dead. Dozens of Guerreros Unidos members, police officers and officials were arrested. The then Attorney General is said to have manipulated the investigation in order to quickly conclude the case. He is also accused of condoning torture and complicity in the disappearance of the students.
Source: Krone
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