The orders have been issued in opposition to “20 navy commanders and troop personnel from battalions 27 and 41 within the metropolis of Iguala, in addition to 5 administrative and judicial authorities from the state of Guerrero; 26 law enforcement officials from Huitzuco; six from Iguala and one from Cocula; plus 11 state police from Guerrero and 14 members of the Guerreros Unidos legal group,” the assertion stated.
The group is accused of “organized crime, compelled disappearance, torture, murder and crimes in opposition to the administration of justice,” the prosecutor’s workplace stated.
The prosecutor’s workplace didn’t determine these allegedly concerned and solely added that each the arrests and the accusations in every case “might be disclosed within the corresponding legal course of.”
As of Saturday afternoon, the establishments had not made a public assertion on the arrest warrants. CNN requested them for feedback, and so they haven’t responded.
The college students had been visiting the southwestern metropolis of Iguala from a trainer’s faculty in Ayotzinapa when their buses have been intercepted by native police and the federal navy forces in September 2014. Exactly what occurred after stays unknown, since many of the lacking college students have been by no means discovered. But bullet-riddled buses have been later seen within the metropolis’s streets with shattered home windows and blood.
Survivors from the unique group of 100 stated their buses had been stopped by armed law enforcement officials and troopers who instantly opened fireplace. The case ignited worldwide outrage.
The choose’s determination Friday was launched hours after the previous legal professional basic of Mexico, Jesús Murillo Karam, was additionally arrested in relation to the disappearances. Murillo Karam led the state’s investigation into the disappearance.
The prosecutor’s workplace stated it considers him a suspect of “the crimes of compelled disappearance, torture and in opposition to the administration of justice, within the ‘Ayotzinapa’ case.”
CNN doesn’t know if Murillo Karam has authorized illustration or how he declares himself earlier than the accusations.
The former legal professional basic’s arrest and the issuance of the arrest warrants happened a day after a authorities reality fee offered a report concluding the disappearance of the scholars was a “crime of the state,” through which members of “the Guerreros Unidos legal group and brokers from numerous establishments of the Mexican state” participated, Mexico’s Undersecretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration Alejandro Encinas stated.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated on Friday that the federal government will proceed to work to seize these concerned within the crime and discover out what precisely occurred to the lacking college students.
CNN’s Karina Maciel contributed to this report.