Former Attorney General Jesus Murillo was arrested at his Mexico City home on charges of forced disappearance, torture, and obstruction of justice.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Mexican officials on Friday, August 19, made the first high-level arrest in the notorious 2014 disappearance of 43 students, accusing a former top prosecutor of crimes in one of Mexico’s worst human rights abuses that current officials have called a state crime.Murillo was taken to an office of the attorney general and will be moved to a Mexico City jail, authorities said.
International experts criticized the official inquiry as riddled with errors and abuses, including the torture of witnesses. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in 2018 vowing to clear up what had happened. Murillo was taken into custody wearing black slacks, his hands folded inside the pockets of a gray jacket, as a law enforcement officer with a rifle slung over his chest stood behind, an image published by local media showed.The attorney general’s office said Murillo cooperated “without resistance.”
The highest levels of Pena Nieto’s administration orchestrated a cover-up, Encinas said, including altering crime scenes and hiding links between authorities and criminals. Prosecutors are working to charge 33 people, Encinas said, without naming them. A panel of international experts picked holes in the account, and the United Nations denounced arbitrary detentions and torture during the inquiry.
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