Retired judge arrested in relation to the disappearance and alleged murders of 43 students in Mexico

Mexican authorities arrested a former senior judge on Wednesday in relation to the disappearance and alleged murders of 43 students A decade ago.

Lambertina Galeana, who faces charges of forced disappearance, is accused of helping videos that supposedly showed the development of the incident, said a government statement.

The supposedly captured security cameras videos at the time the students were kidnapped by armed men just in front of a judicial building, the country reported. In 2022, a commission concluded that Galeana ordered the destroyed videos because the images “were not clear due to technical problems,” said the outlet.

The case, one of the worst atrocities of the human rights of the country full of violence, has become emblematic of a crisis of missing persons that has seen more than 120,000 people disappear.

Galeana, now withdrawn, was president of the Superior Court of Justice in the state of southern Guerrero, where the students of a Rural Teacher Training University disappeared in September 2014.

Until now, the remains of only three of the missing students have been found and identified, and relatives denounce impunity.

The students of the Ayotzinapa school, whose members have a history of political activism, had commanded buses to travel to a demonstration in Mexico City when they disappeared.

Investigators believe they were kidnapped by a drug sign with the help of the corrupt police, although exactly what happened is not clear.

In 2022, a truth commission established by former President Andrés Manuel López, the government of Obrador, described the case as a “state crime” and said the military shared responsibility, either directly or by negligence.

That same year, arrested federal agents Former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karamwho supervised the original research.

The commission discovered that the army was aware of what was happening and had real time information about kidnapping and disappearance.

A theory presented by the commission was that the members of the poster attacked the students because, without knowing it, they had taken a bus with hidden drugs inside.

The incident attracted international conviction and shocked a nation where criminal violence, largely linked to drug trafficking, has gained around 480,000 lives since 2006.

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