The order states, “20 military commanders and troop personnel from the 27th and 41st Battalions in Iguala City, as well as five administrative and judicial authorities in Guerrero State, 26 police officers in Wituco, six police officers in Iguala, Cocura. plus 11 Guerrero state police and 14 members of the Guerrero Unidos crime group,” the statement said.
The group is accused of “organized crime, enforced disappearance, torture, murder and crimes against the administration of justice,” prosecutors said.
Prosecutors did not identify the persons allegedly involved, adding that both the arrests and charges in each case “will be revealed in the corresponding criminal proceedings.”
As of Saturday afternoon, the agency has not released an official statement regarding the arrest warrant. They did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
In September 2014, students were visiting the southwestern city of Iguala from the Teachers College in Ayotsinapa when their bus was blocked by local police and federal forces. But then a bullet-riddled bus with shattered windows and blood was seen on the city streets.
Survivors of the original group of 100 said their bus was stopped by armed police and soldiers who suddenly opened fire.
The judge’s decision on Friday was announced hours after Mexico’s former attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, was also arrested in connection with the disappearance, who led a state investigation into the disappearance. .
the public prosecutor’s office said cHe believes he is a suspect in “enforced disappearance, torture, and crimes against the administration of justice in the ‘Ayotzinapa’ case.”
CNN does not know if Murillo Karam has legal representation or how he declared himself prior to the charges being filed.
The former Attorney General’s arrest and the issuance of an arrest warrant came a day after a government Truth Commission filed a report concluding that the student’s disappearance was a “state crime.” It was attended by “agents from various agencies of the Mexican state,” said Alejandro Encinas, Mexico’s undersecretary for human rights, population and migration.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday that the government would arrest those involved in the crime and continue efforts to find out exactly what happened to the missing student.
CNN’s Karina Maciel contributed to this report.
Source: www.cnn.com
