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| Mexican attorney general is arrested over disappearance of 43 activist students who were 'murdered by cartel' after being rounded up by police in scandal that shocked Mexico six years ago | |
| 2022-08-21 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
A further 83 arrest warrants - for 33 local police officers, 11 state police, 20 army soldier officers and 14 gang members - have also been issued. The mass kidnapping happened on September 26 2014, when 43 male teaching students from the rural village of Ayotzinapa were detained by corrupt police, from Iguala, on their way to a protest before being handed over to the Guerreros United Cartel.
It is the first time in recent history that a former attorney general has been arrested and marks one of the biggest mass arrests by civilian prosecutors of Mexican army soldiers. The office of the current attorney general, Alejandro Gertz Manero, said Murillo Karam was charged with torture, official misconduct and forced disappearance. In 2020, Gertz Manero said Murillo Karam had been involved in the crime by 'orchestrating a massive media trick' and leading a 'generalized cover-up' of the case. His arrest comes a day after a commission set up to determine what had happened said the army were at least partially responsible in the case. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 You might want to consider requests for extradition of the Arizona fed AG and Mr. Holder over 'Fast and Furious' gun running. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-08-21 06:43 |