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Report: Mexican police capture suspect in disappearance and deaths of students
Source: The Guardian
Report: Mexican police capture suspect in disappearance and deaths of students
Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Thursday 17 September 2015 22.40 BST
Mexican police have reportedly captured a drug trafficker who the government has said ordered the disappearance and incineration of 43 student teachers after he mistook their presence in his territory for an incursion by a rival drug gang.
The arrest – widely reported in local media and expected to be officially confirmed at a press conference scheduled for Thursday evening – comes at a time when the government is struggling to establish the credibility of its investigation into what happened to the students.
Local media said Gildardo Lopez, nicknamed El Gil, was arrested in the tourist town of Taxco, about 20 miles from the city of Iguala from where the teachers went missing on 26 September 2014, after being first attacked and then arrested by municipal police.
In early November the government said its investigation into what happened next had established that the police handed the students over to members of the locally-dominant Guerreros Unidos drug gang.
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Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Thursday 17 September 2015 22.40 BST
Mexican police have reportedly captured a drug trafficker who the government has said ordered the disappearance and incineration of 43 student teachers after he mistook their presence in his territory for an incursion by a rival drug gang.
The arrest – widely reported in local media and expected to be officially confirmed at a press conference scheduled for Thursday evening – comes at a time when the government is struggling to establish the credibility of its investigation into what happened to the students.
Local media said Gildardo Lopez, nicknamed El Gil, was arrested in the tourist town of Taxco, about 20 miles from the city of Iguala from where the teachers went missing on 26 September 2014, after being first attacked and then arrested by municipal police.
In early November the government said its investigation into what happened next had established that the police handed the students over to members of the locally-dominant Guerreros Unidos drug gang.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/mexican-police-capture-suspect-disappearance-deaths-students