Almost six years after the abduction and murder of 43 Mexican students who went to a Demonstration in Iguala, in the southwest of the country, has been taken to another suspected perpetrator. The judicial authorities confirmed on Tuesday, was arrested the drug Baron Ángel Casarrubias Salgado already in the past week, under yet unknown circumstances in Metepec-West of Mexico city.
In consultation with the Ministry of justice and the Ministry of security and civil protection had issued a Federal court before a warrant for the arrest of Casarrubias Salgado, a leader of the cartel Guerreros Unidos,. The drug Lord called “El Mochomo”, is the brother of the gang leader Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado. The fifty-year-old had already been in October of 2014, a few weeks after the Disappearance of the 43 student teachers, in focus. During Interrogations, he admitted at the time, to be to the murder of the students have been involved.
The so-called mass kidnapping of Iguala is one of the biggest scandals of the term of office of the previous President Enrique Peña Nieto. According to the previous investigations came on the 26. In September 2014, around 100 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers‘ College in Iguala. Allegedly, they planned to disrupt a ceremony for the wife and a possible successor of the mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez. Abarca Velázquez at the time to have arranged, the students will increase. Whether you were stopped before or after the planned protests, is still controversial. As eyewitnesses said later, they were brought to the neighbouring town of Cocula. The trace of the 43 young men was lost later in a rural area of the Region, after the officials had handed over to members of the drug cartel Guerreros Unidos. You should have killed the students and then their bodies burned.
Tuesday first appearance in court
As the mayor of Iguala, his wife and police chief Felipe escaped Flores Velásquez, a few days after the crime, were speculations about the unexpectedly close relationship between officials and politicians with Mexico’s notorious cartels, according to. The “United warriors” at that time belonged to the cartel, Beltrán Leyva (CBL), the lost after the arrest of its leaders in the past few years, but to influence. The gang Guerreros Unidos to be still active. According to the American drug enforcement authority (DEA), smuggling, the organization regularly Heroin and other drugs into the United States.
