Status: 08/19/2022 08:01
In 2014, 43 students disappeared in Mexico after being kidnapped by corrupt police. His fate is still unknown to this day. Despite this, the government has already declared the youths dead.
Eight years after the kidnapping of 43 students in Mexico, the government declared the youths dead.
“There is no evidence that the students are still alive,” said Mexico’s Secretary of State for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas. This was communicated to the students’ families at a meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Students kidnapped by police
In September 2014, corrupt police kidnapped students from a teacher training school in Iguala, Guerrero state, and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos criminal syndicate. The background of the fact is not yet fully elucidated.
Initial investigations under the government of Enrique Peña Nieto at the time came to the conclusion that the students had been burned in a garbage dump. However, this turned out to be wrong.
Serious accusation against the military
So far, only bone fragments from three of the students have been identified. The parents of the missing, however, hoped until the end to find their children alive.
Encinas, who is also head of the truth commission, now blames the disappearance on the military. The military could have saved the students, he said, stressing that it was a crime against the state. Investigations must continue.
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Anne Demmer, rb, 19.8.2022 08:32