Lawyers for relatives of the 43 normalista students who disappeared in 2014 in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, criticized the government’s decision to disclose part of the conversations between alleged criminals and authorities involved in the case.
The document, which is part of the investigation of the facts, reveals that the young people were separated into groups shortly after their disappearance, in the city of Iguala, Guerrero, when their captors mentioned that 17 of them were taken to what they identify as a cave”.
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“It is risky that information about an ongoing investigation is disseminated in this way, as it may compromise its success,” said the Miguel Agustín Pro Human Rights Center, which represents the relatives of the Ayotzinapa case, where the school of the students.
The conversations, through text messages, also show that one of the heads of the criminal group Guerreros Unidos asked the Iguala police that the young normalistas from Ayotzinapa be handed over to him after being informed of their capture, reinforcing the theory that in corrupt officials participated in his disappearance.
“As they are ayotzinapos, but they are hooded and armed. We already have several detainees, ”one of the interlocutors notified the criminal leader in the dialogue, according to the transcript released by the Ministry of the Interior, at the request of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Initially, it had been said that the Ayotzinapa students were murdered and cremated in a garbage dump, but subsequent investigations uncovered serious flaws in the prosecution’s work, overturning that version.
To date, only the remains of three of the youths have been located.
Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the rest or the causes of their disappearance, which shook the administration of former president Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), in a case that is also tainted by multiple complaints of torture and suspicions of the participation of the military.