Mexican Government Rejects Findings of Misconduct in Missing Students Case
10, 2017
MEXICO CITY — The final version of an internal review by the Mexican government into the conduct of investigators searching for 43 missing students has rejected an earlier report
that found that the officials’ mishandling of suspects and evidence broke the law.
that The new inspector general gave us a resolution that basically makes fun of the 43 students’ families,
Mario said that The problem is that the evidence was tampered with
and the entire investigation has been manipulated and now they are denying the right to truth of 43 families,
The investigators’ actions amounted only to technical violations, according to the new report, which was prepared
by the inspector general of the attorney general’s office and given to the students’ families on Thursday.
The five experts uncovered detailed evidence showing
that 17 key suspects were tortured and that commanders at the local army battalion and the federal police were aware of the police attacks on the students but stood by.
The inspector general who replaced Mr. Chávez Flores, Adriana Campos López, told the victims’ parents
that investigators were in a hurry to solve the case, spurring Mr. Zerón’s visit to the riverbank.
A bone found at the riverbank the following day was identified as belonging to one of
the students, raising suspicions among the families that the evidence was planted.