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MEXICO CITY — Mexico's former attorney general, Jesus Murillo, has been arrested on charges of enforced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, Mexican authorities said Friday. .
The Attorney General's Office said in a statement that federal police had executed an arrest warrant for Jesus M. issued by a judge in Mexico City.
Murillo, a resident, was arrested outside his home and taken to the attorney general's office, the office said.
Murillo served as Attorney General from 2012 until 2015 when he served as Attorney General under former President Enrique Peña Nieto. At the time, Murillo was overseeing a much-criticized investigation into the disappearance of 43 of his students from the Ayotsinapa Rural Teachers College in southwest Guerrero.
International experts criticized the official investigation as riddled with errors and abuses, criticizing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's inauguration in 2018 and his disappearance. I vowed to find out what happened.
When asked about the government's move to analyze past investigations, Murillo said he was happy to be investigated and open to being questioned, local media said. Reported in 2020.
Arrests are coming. Mexico's chief human rights officer, Alejandro Encinas, a day after calling government-involved disappearances a "state crime". It said it organized a cover-up in the aftermath of the incident.
Mexico is trying to extradite one of its former officials who served under Murillo from Israel, and is accused of manipulating the investigation. been accused. (Reporting by Kylie Madley, Dina Beth Solomon, Adriana Barrera, Lisbeth Diaz, Isabel Woodford; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Leslie Adler for Mexico City)
