2023-09-26 01:56:02
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators, some with their faces covered, staged a violent protest outside a headquarters of the state intelligence agency in Mexico’s capital on Monday on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, while their relatives and activists persist in their complaints regarding the obstacles to clarifying the case
Using firecrackers and homemade incendiary bombs, dozens of protesters attacked the headquarters of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), an agency that depends on the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, where they painted graffiti and caused some damage to the entrance.
The attack on the state facility occurred shortly following a demonstration held by relatives and friends of the 43 students to demand that the CNI provide information on the whereregardings of the young people who disappeared between September 26 and 27, 2014 in the southern town of Iguala, state of Guerrero.
Earlier, activists, family members and former members of a group of experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) participated in a forum where questions regarding the investigation process and complaints regarding the obstacles of the military forces in delivering key information were reiterated. of the case.
This was recognized by Carlos Beristain, former member of the group of experts, who stated that in nine years “we have touched on many truths,” but maintained that “the will” of the authorities is needed to have access to key files and information of people linked to crime. organized and the State apparatus that knew regarding the events that occurred in 2014.
The expert group denounced, shortly before ceasing work in Mexico last July, that the Mexican Army provided false data, moved documentation to avoid tracking it and hid evidence of the case.
Vidulfo Rosales, lawyer for the young people’s relatives, joined the criticism, expressing concern regarding a judge’s decision to carry out an action presented by the lawyers of some of the soldiers detained for alleged irregularities in the process.
Rosales denied that the detained soldiers had been charged for the disappearance of the teaching students from the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa and stated that the processes they face are for “collusion with the Guerreros Unidos criminal group,” which is accused of participating in the disappearance of the 43 young people along with elements of local and state security corporations.
In the case, a dozen soldiers and former prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam, who was linked to proceedings last year for the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and once morest the administration of justice, have been detained.
Among the detained soldiers are retired general José Rodríguez Pérez, captain José Martínez Crespo, second lieutenant Fabián Pirita Ochoa and sergeant Eduardo Mota Esquivel.
In recent days, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Undersecretary of the Interior and head of the government commission investigating the case, Alejandro Encinas, and other authorities have met with the students’ families to deliver a new report of the facts.
In August of last year, Encinas presented a report that was questioned by the group of experts who recognized that the evidence used by the government commission had “inconsistencies” in terms of dates, the way of writing some of the messages and the devices used. were used, which complicated the verification of the evidence.
The Ayotzinapa case became a symbol in a country with more than 110,000 missing people and where high levels of impunity, corruption and violence still prevail.
1695693694
#protest #remember #missing #young #people #doubts #persist #case
