A former police officer allegedly implicated in the disappearance of Ayotzinapa’s 43 normalist students, Guerrero, turned himself in to federal authorities this Friday, September 11.
According to the Under-Secretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Government, Alejandro Encinas, this is Carlos Gómez Arrieta, former puppet of the Federal Ministerial Police.
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This morning in Mexico City was voluntarily handed over to the @FGRMexico authorities, Carlos Gómez Arrieta, former holder of the Federal Ministerial Police during the unfortunate events of #Ayotizinapa and on whom there was an arrest warrant since March.
— Alejandro Encinas (@A_Encinas_R) September 11, 2020
Although the authorities noted that the alleged person involved voluntarily turned himself in to the Attorney General’s Office, they detailed that “since March there was an arrest warrant against him for his likely involvement in the acts of torture and enforced disappearance against some of the detainees on the case”.
In June 2019, Gómez Arrieta resigned as Undersecretary of Public Security of Michoacán, after a video was released showing torture of alleged policemen against one of those accused of the disappearance of the 43 normalists of Ayotzinapa.
At that time he decided to separate himself from office in order to facilitate and attend to the investigations that were arising under the law of those facts, the Secretariat of Public Security of Michoacán reported.
It was also reported that mothers and fathers of the normalists and their representatives requested President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that on September 26, the day that 6 years of the disappearance of the students, he issued a message on the progress of the work of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice for the Ayotzinapa case.
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