Federal judge Raquel Ivette Duarte now accepted the request of the FGR and issued the arrest warrants against the soldiers for the crimes of organized crime and forced disappearance. (Source: PL)
Mexico City, Jun 21 (RHC) The Attorney General's Office (FGR) achieved the approval of 16 arrest warrants for military personnel involved in the case of the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas, the entity confirmed Wednesday.
In a press release, they explained that the order was given by a court based in Almoloya de Juarez, State of Mexico, and the military against whom the warrants were issued are the same ones that the Specialized Unit for Investigation and Litigation of the Ayotzinapa Case decided to not to charge in August last year.
According to the report, this request for the subsequent arrest warrants is based on the same evidence they had in 2022 that led the Specialized Unit for Investigation and Litigation to drop the charges.
It had been argued that the defendants are military personnel who in no ministerial statement were indicated to have detained or participated in the disappearance of the normalistas, the only reference that existed is that during the early morning of September 26, 2014, they went to the Cristina Clinic to provide support to a group of students who were receiving medical attention there.
However, the federal judge, Raquel Ivette Duarte, now accepted the request of the FGR and issued arrest warrants against the soldiers for organized crime and forced disappearance.
Among those for whom arrest warrants were issued was the then commander of the 41st Infantry Battalion, based in Iguala, Colonel Rafael Hernandez Nieto.
The remaining arrest warrants were issued for members of the battalion as well as the 27th Infantry Battalion. These military personnel were involved in intelligence and patrol activities following the actions of the municipal police of Iguala, Cocula, and Huitzuco, in coordination with members of the criminal organization Guerreros Unidos, according to a source cited by PL."(Source: PL)
