Mexico City (EFE).- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, promised this Tuesday that his government will continue with the investigation of the case of the 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa in 2014 after the upcoming departure of the Interdisciplinary Group of Expert Investigators (GIEI) from the country.
“I met with the group, there are two who stayed and have finished their work, we thanked them for those who have done good research. They are going to present a report, we are going to continue with the investigation, much progress has been made,” said the president during his morning press conference.
Latest report on Ayotzinapa
The GIEI of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will present this Tuesday its sixth and last report, in which it will announce its most recent findings, the obstacles it has encountered, and the pending issues that remain for the officials responsible for investigating the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students that occurred on the night of September 26, 2014.
The official investigation by the government of former President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) pointed out as a “historic truth” that the students were detained by police from the municipality of Iguala, in the southern state of Guerrero, and handed them over to criminals who murdered and burned them in a garbage dump.
But the GIEI reviewed the case and demolished the official version, in addition to denouncing the use of torture in the investigations.
The case will continue
Before the group of investigators left, López Obrador assured that “much progress has been made” in the investigation and stressed that those responsible have been punished, with between 120 and 130 people arrested.
“Senior public officials are detained here, (something) that had not happened, both civilians and soldiers, and the investigation continues,” he said.
He also said that he promised to get to know the whole truth in the case.
“And it is a commitment that I am going to fulfill, I am fulfilling it, progress is being made and a lot,” he emphasized.
“If our movement had not triumphed, they would have already shelved this matter,” he asserted.