MEXICO CITY — A former head of investigations for Mexico’s Legal professional Basic’s Workplace instructed officers investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students that the so-called “historic reality” introduced to the general public weeks later was cooked up by the very best rating authorities within the authorities throughout conferences presided over by then-President Enrique Peña Nieto, a Mexican information outlet reported Monday.
Tomás Zerón, a fugitive now in Israel past the attain of Mexican legislation enforcement, instructed investigators that the president and members of his safety Cupboard have been current, the impartial journalism collective Fabrica de Periodismo reported.
It quoted from Zerón’s solutions to a prolonged questionnaire despatched to him in 2022 by Mexico’s high human rights official on the time, Alejandro Encinas, which was launched underneath a freedom of knowledge request.
The “historic reality” model contended the scholars have been turned over by native police to a drug gang within the metropolis of Iguala. The gang purportedly killed the scholars, incinerated their our bodies at a dump in close by Cocula and tossed the stays right into a river.
Subsequent investigations by impartial consultants and the Legal professional Basic’s Workplace, and corroborated by the Fact Fee established for the case, have since dismissed the concept the our bodies have been burned on the dump.
A neighborhood drug gang was certainly concerned, they decided, however the Fact Fee additionally believes corrupt members of Mexico’s navy in addition to police in any respect ranges have been, too.
Encinas, the human rights official, beforehand referred to high-level conferences of officers to debate the “historic reality” model, however with out figuring out all of these current.
In line with Zerón, the conferences have been attended by the president in addition to his safety Cupboard and then-Legal professional Basic Jesús Murillo Karam. Murillo Karam has been credited with calling the reason of the scholars’ disappearance the “historic reality” and has been underneath home arrest awaiting trial. Peña Nieto now lives in Spain.
Zerón, who’s accused of torture and compelled disappearance, didn’t present any element on Peña Nieto’s involvement aside from to say he was on the conferences.
Encinas, who resigned from his submit final 12 months, has mentioned he supplied Zerón a deal for his cooperation within the investigation.
Requested concerning the case Monday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned Zerón ought to flip himself in.
“It might assist quite a bit if he would come to make an announcement and take duty,” the president mentioned.
López Obrador was scheduled to fulfill with households of the lacking college students Tuesday, the final time earlier than he leaves workplace on the finish of September.
Households of the lacking college students made their month-to-month march for justice within the capital on Monday.