Mexico City - Mexican officials on Thursday said prosecutors are exploring new lines of investigation ignored by the previous administration in order to solve the case of the 43 missing students from a rural teacher's college in Ayotzinapa who disappeared five years ago while under police custody.The case was effectively closed during the previous...
Mexico City - Mexican officials on Thursday said prosecutors are exploring new lines of investigation ignored by the previous administration in order to solve the case of the 43 missing students from a rural teacher's college in Ayotzinapa who disappeared five years ago while under police custody.
The case was effectively closed during the previous administration, plunging Enrique Pena Nieto's administration into a crisis after human rights groups, international organisations and journalists denounced a series of contradictions, obstruction of justice and cover-ups pointing to forced disappearances.
The official account - known as the "historical truth" - said that local police officers surrendered the students to members of a drug gang linked with the town's mayor, who had confused them with members of a rival gang and killed them, later burning their bodies in a rubbish dump and throwing the ashes inside garbage bags into a river.
But independent investigations later suggested the case was heavily based in confessions of alleged criminals obtained under torture. The remains of only one student were found in the dumpster and river.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador reopened the case soon after he was elected last year. During his daily news conference on Thursday, Lopez Obrador and his team addressed reporters and the students' families and briefed them on the new investigation developments.
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