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Ex-official held in Mexico over disappearance of 43 students

Updated on: 28 June,2023 08:15 AM IST  |  Mexico City
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Assistant Interior Secretary Alejandro Encinas wrote that Ramírez faces charges of disappearance, torture and conspiracy for the botched investigation into the abductions

Ex-official held in Mexico over disappearance of 43 students

Relatives and classmates of the students on the anniversary of their disappearance. Pic/AP

Mexico said on Monday it has arrested the former head of a federal anti-kidnapping unit in connection with the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. Gualberto Ramírez was head of the anti-kidnapping unit for the attorney general’s office when the students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college in southern Mexico went missing.


Assistant Interior Secretary Alejandro Encinas wrote that Ramírez faces charges of disappearance, torture and conspiracy for the botched investigation into the abductions, which are defined as “disappearances” under Mexican law because only remains of three of the victims have been identified.


Security forces abducted the students from buses in the city of Iguala on September 26, 2014, and turned them over to a local drug gang, which killed and burned them. Encinas also wrote in his Twitter account that eight soldiers detained in the case last week have been charged by civilian prosecutors with disappearance. They are being held in a military prison, and could continue there.


Recent revelations implicate the military in the disappearances, but the motive for the students’ abduction remains unclear, though there is evidence it may have involved police and military collusion with drug traffickers.

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