August 24, 2022, 18:46 PM
August 24, 2022, 18:46 PM
The former Attorney General of Mexico, Jesús Murillo Karam, was linked to criminal proceedings this Wednesday for forced disappearance and torture, in the case of 43 students who have disappeared since 2014, the judiciary reported.
Murillo Karam, imprisoned since last Friday, also must answer in a trial for crimes against the administration of justice, as decided by a magistrate during a hearing held in Mexico City, the Federal Judicial Council (CJF) told the press.
The former official is responsible for the disputed investigations into the disappearance of 43 students from the rural normal school of Ayotzinapa (state of Guerrero, south), which occurred between September 26 and 27, 2014.
During his appearance this Wednesday, Murillo Karam defended the so-called “historic truth”, as he called the investigation carried out by the Attorney General’s Office, then dependent on the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).
“I can accept some mistakesthey could have made mistakes, problems and accepted things that were done wrong, but no one has been able to throw it away (their version),” said the former attorney, according to a journalist from the newspaper Reforma present at the proceeding.
The historical “truth” did not prove the participation of the military, unlike the report of a government commission released last Thursday.
Murillo Karam became a heavyweight of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for 71 uninterrupted years until December 2000.
The former official was arrested last Friday at his home in an exclusive neighborhood in Mexico City, one day after the government commission disseminate the report that refutes the “historical truth” and indicates the participation of civil and military authorities in the disappearance, which he considers a “state crime”.
