Federal police witnessed abduction of 43 missing Mexican students – witness
Source: The Guardian / AP
A witness to the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 has told investigators that federal and municipal police were present when the youths were forced from their bus, according to the country’s national human rights commission. The new testimony suggests that federal officers at least allowed local police to abduct some of the students – who have never been found – and may have actively participated in one of Mexico’s most notorious recent human rights atrocities, said commission member José Larrieta Carrasco. Larrieta also said that businesses had impeded the investigation by hiding evidence. He would not identify the companies or say whether they were the bus lines involved. <snip>
When two federal police officers arrived in two patrol vehicles, one asked an Iguala policeman what they were doing, Larrieta said. According to the witness, the local officer told the federal police officer that the students had “messed with one of their own” and they were taking them to Huitzuco where “the boss” would decide what to do with them. Larrieta said the witness account was corroborated by other statements from Iguala police already in custody.
The commission urged the federal attorney general’s office to investigate Huitzuco police and find the identities of the two federal police who were at the scene. It also said authorities should investigate the possibility that state officials were also present.
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