The 43 students disappeared in Mexico were killed, their bodies burned and the remains thrown into a garbage dump and a river by a drug gang. This was announced yesterday by the Attorney General Jesus Murillo. He said that the missing since September 26 students were kidnapped by corrupt police officers who had provided the drug gang, the Guerreros Unidos. According to the macabre story delivered by three inmates, gang members, fifteen students would be suffocated in the vehicles leading to the discharge where the survivors were then killed and burned the body.
But parents of missing dispute this version. "We want results with evidence. When we are sure that the attorney general says is true, then we will accept whatever the result, "said the mother of one of the missing students.
The remains of the presumed dead students will be sent to Austria for a final DNA identification.
This is the most serious crisis the Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto faces. "For parents, relatives and colleagues of the students, I reiterate my solidarity and full support (...). Investigations will be conducted until the final consequences, all the guilty will be punished under the principle of the rule of law.
The alleged instigators, the former mayor of Iguala where students have disappeared, and his wife were arrested earlier this week in Mexico City.
In total, more than 70 people including policemen and officials have been arrested since the facts.
With AFP, AP and Reuters
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