Mexico arrests former top prosecutor over missing students case

Mexico arrests former top prosecutor over missing students case

20th August 2022 0 By Mathias Stephen
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Mexico on Friday arrested a former top prosecutor who led the heavily criticised investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice.

Jesus Murillo Karam is the highest profile arrest so far in connection with the case, which shocked the nation and the world.

The former attorney general is considered the architect of the so-called “historical truth” version of events presented in 2015 by the government of then-president Enrique Pena Nieto, which was widely rejected, including by relatives. Current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reopened the investigation shortly after his election in 2018.

Murillo, a former heavyweight of the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who lives in the Mexico City area, was arrested outside his home, according to a statement from the attorney general’s office. Murillo held the post of attorney general from 2012 – 2015.

The 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in the southwest state of Guerrero went missing as they were travelling by bus to a demonstration.

Read More : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/20/mexico-arrests-former-top-prosecutor-over-missing-students-case


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