A Mexican judge on Wednesday ordered the referral of the country’s former attorney general, Jesus Moreau-Karam, to trial on charges of being involved in the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, authorities said.
At the conclusion of a hearing, the Federal Judicial Council said in a statement that Moreau-Karam, who oversaw a controversial investigation into this case, will be tried on several charges, including enforced disappearance and obstruction of justice.
On Saturday, the Mexican judiciary ordered Morio-Karam to be held in pretrial detention, the day after his arrest, as part of an investigation into the case of the disappearance of 43 students after leaving their university in Ayotzinapa (south) in 2014.
And Morio-Karam, who was a public prosecutor under former President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), led a controversial preliminary investigation into these disappearances.
And Morio-Karam is the most senior official to be arrested and brought to trial so far as part of these investigations, which were re-launched from scratch after the arrival of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to power in 2019.
And last week, the Public Prosecution issued arrest warrants for 64 police and soldiers, in addition to 14 members of the drug smuggling gang “Guerreros Onidos”, as part of its investigations into this case.
The case concerns a group of students from the Teacher Training School in Ayotzinapa in the state of Gehiro (south) who in September went to the nearby city of Iguala to take buses to Mexico to participate in a demonstration.
The investigation revealed that the police arrested 43 of these boys in the context of a case linked to the “Guerrero Unidos” gang, then shot them and burned their bodies for reasons that are still unclear. Only the remains of three of them have been identified.
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