Mexico arrests ex-attorney general in missing students case

[Lasher]

Source: Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested the attorney general in Mexico’s previous administration on charges he committed abuses in the investigation of the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teacher college.

Prosecutors also announced they had issued arrest warrants in the case against 20 army soldiers officers, five local officials, 33 local police officers and 11 state police, as well as 14 gang members.

The roundup included the first arrest of a former attorney general in recent history, and one of the biggest mass arrests ever by civilian prosecutors of Mexican army soldiers.

Jesús Murillo Karam served as attorney general from 2012 to 2015, under then President Enrique Peña Nieto. The office of the current attorney general, Alejandro Gertz Manero, said Murillo Karam was charged with torture, official misconduct and forced disappearance

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/mexico-caribbean-arrests-4d219a28ac3294e76b3254a93ac855fa

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I'm sure some of you remember the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico during 2014. Looks like the perps have been brought to justice.

[mahina]

1. Oh my God in heaven. Those poor kids. Why?

Monsters.

[Hortensis]

2. Also 20 army personnel, 5 local officials, 33 local police, 11 state police,

14 gang members. So after 7 years, what many in the Guerrero area and of course at the army base must have known about is finally to this point. Good guys winning.

Interesting that the AP (whose blatant political bias helped swiftboat HRC and the Democratic Party in 2016) refers to Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College not by name but only twice as a "radical" college. Mexico's system of normal schools grew out of the revolution to spread education and its social ideas to rural people, and those that've survived still have a strong left political orientation.

[yardwork]

3. Yes, very disheartening.

[bahboo]

4. I can think of an ex-attorney general who needs arresting...

and not in Mexico...

[Carlitos Brigante]

5. Better late than never, I guess. Hopefully they all start snitching on

everyone else.

[Stuart G]

6. K & R...What is most interesting (in my opinion only) is that this fellow, Murillo Karam, who served

as attorney general from 2012 to 2015, was absolutely sure, (like Trump)..." that he could get away with it. "

....Of course he hasn't been proven guilty yet, but the arrests would not have happened unless there was solid
proof that Karam was involved. Very sad indeed, but the fact that prosecutors have arrested Karam shows
that the cover up is over.
...If you read the last paragraph, Karam was charged with.." torture, official misconduct, and forced disappearance."

.............Very sad, but at least they arrested him and will prosecute him.

[prodigitalson]

7. There is a movie about this on Netflix called "The 43"

I'm so glad the Mexicans are bringing these monsters to justice. I don't think anything would have happened if the PAN or PRI had won the last presidential election. I was visiting family who still live in Mexico when this happened. Besides the horror of the massacre the lack of justice even though everyone knows who did it has been one of the most depressing things ever