The Special Prosecutor’s Office for Ayotzinapa case of the Ministry of the Interior analyzes 35 bodies out of about 2 thousand accumulated by the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Guerrero (FGEG), southern Mexico, to locate a finding that indicates that they belong to the 43 students who were missing on September 26, 2014, the parents’ lawyer, Vidulfo Rosales, reported this Monday. .
This Monday, a group of parents of the missing students mobilized from the six-day sit-in they held in the capital’s Zócalo, in front of the National Palace, heading to the Ministry of the Interior (Interior) to meet with the special prosecutor of the case, Rosendo Gómez. Stone.
“They said that The Guerrero Prosecutor’s Office found 2 thousand bodies in the city of Iguala (Guerrero) and surrounding areasAnd because of these findings, the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Ayotzinapa case asked to be allowed to analyze some bodies,” Rosales told the media after leaving the meeting.
He added that first they gave him 132 bodies based on the characteristics and ages of the students and after a selection they said that they would only examine 35.
“So far only one body has been studied and with negative results for some of the students,” Rosales added and specified that the Special Prosecutor’s Office has not allowed the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to participate in the analysis of the bodies.
The last friday, the parents of the 43 students disappeared marched and set up a sit-in in the Zócalo from Mexico City, which they will withdraw on May 1, to demand justice and clarification of the case, which turns 10 years old in 2024.
In addition, they asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to meet with them before the presidential elections on June 2 to inform them of the progress of the investigations.
The mobilization, part of Global Action 115 for Ayotzinapa, took place from the Ángel de la Independencia, on the central Reforma Avenue, to the Zócalo of Mexico City.
That same Friday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reaffirmed that there will be no closure in the Ayotzinapa case, which is why the Government of Mexico continues the investigations in order to know the whereabouts of the 43 missing students.
The president reiterated that, after the June 2 elections, he will receive the mothers and fathers of the 43 students to present more progress in the investigations.
The parents and Ayotzinapa students have demonstrated in his last protests that López Obrador has not kept his promise to resolve the disappearance of his 43 companions in September 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero, although the Truth Commission created by him concluded in 2022 that it was a “state crime” in which the Army also participated.
In recent months they have hijacked trucks, vandalized government facilities and held a sit-in in the Zócalo last month to demand an audience with López Obrador.
In 2023, López Obrador assured that the Army had delivered all the information related to the Ayotzinapa casebut for the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) it was an obstruction by the Armed Forces to prevent the investigation of the role they played in the disappearance.
