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In the investigation into the case there are a series of inconsistencies in the official narrative that
prevent giving the parents of the young people a clear explanation about what happened to their
children over 4 years. Two days after the announcement of the new follow-up mechanism of the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the Ayotzinapa case, new information
has come to light that revives doubts about the involvement of State forces in the disappearance of
the 43 students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School, on September 26, 2014.
Despite the follow-up on the case, four and a half years remain a series of challenges around the
case. The Special Mechanism for Follow-up on the Ayotzinapa Matter indicates a fragmented,
incomplete investigation without a clear guideline. To this is added the lack of arrests and
consignments for forced disappearance and lack of arrests of state actors for action or omission.
There are a series of inconsistencies in the official narrative of the investigation that to date have
not been clarified. Here are some: The then Attorney General's Office (PGR) identified nine cell
phones of missing students, who would have had activity after the facts of the case.
Two of them would have been in the hands of municipal authorities and officials. In this regard, the
IACHR has indicated that it is necessary to continue with the analysis of this information, since so
far the whereabouts of the students in the hours after the events are unknown, something that could
clarify the location of the phones.
The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) reiterated that some wireless devices are
active even days after the disappearance of the students, and although this agrees with the PGR
report, the devices and the people who used them are never physically searched.
According to the investigations, one of these devices was by Julio César López Patolzin, who was
confirmed Wednesday as an army infiltrator. On August 21, 2015, the Ministry of National Defense
(Sedena) reported that one of the 43 missing students was an infantryman. As reported, Julio César
López Patolzin contacted authorization to conduct studies in civil educational institutions, that is, he
was not active.
At that time, it was ruled out what would be related to the Army or the disappearance of the rest of
its companions, so the PGR did not make further inquiries in this regard.
This Wednesday, through an independent investigation, it was announced that Julio could have
been an active military until he was deprived of his freedom. Reportedly, the student provides
information to the Intelligence Bureau of Battalion 50 based in Chilpancingo, Guerrero for the
National Defense Secretariat. Jesús Murillo Karam, former Attorney General of the Republic,
initially claimed that the students had been handed over by municipal police and a group of drug
traffickers who had been murdered and charred at the Cocula dump. This version was discarded by
the GIEI, sowing the doubt that the fragments rescued on the banks of the San Juan River had been
planted.
To date, there is no modification in the government's narrative in relation to this fact, a weight of
what is indicated by the GIEI, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR) and the Argentine Anthropology Team Forensic (EAAF).
The CNDH has requested that of the more than 63,000 bone fragments recovered in the Cocula
dump and in the San Juan River, the sample of 114 bone and dental remains selected by its expert
team be analyzed genetically to determine whether or not it corresponds to the normalists missing
In relation to the investigation on the municipal authorities, the possible participation of the police
of Tepecoacuilco, Pilcaya, Eduardo Neri, Buenavista de Cuéllar, Apaxtla and places close to Iguala
is still undetermined.
The IACHR determined in 2018 that there are important probative elements, such as telephony and
ballistics, which establishes the presence of Huitzuco police in scenes of the events, for which
reason it is important that the consignment documents be presented again for the crime of
disappearance forced against these cops.
In relation to the participation of three elements of the Federal Police, the role they had in the
disappearance of the normalists is still undetermined, so it is necessary to contrast the information
in the statements with that obtained in the telephone analysis of the PGR.
To date, the chain of command for the transfer of personnel from this police force to Iguala and the
removal of the staff of the Iguala station on October 13, 2014 is unknown. Also, the possible
relationship of one remains unclear. of the Federal Police commanders in the state with members of
the Guerreros Unidos criminal group.
In relation to the State Police, the actions undertaken by this security body remain unclear, since
different statements raise doubts about the reasons for the protection of the Regional Police
Training Center (CRAPOL) on the night that the normalists disappeared.
It has been pointed out that the PGR sent, almost two years after its disappearance, the garments of
the normalists to the Medical University of Insbruck, Austria, to be analyzed.
In January of this year, a judge ordered the General Visitation of the now Attorney General of the
Republic to re-investigate whether there is criminal responsibility against the officials who
participated in the proceedings that took place in the San Juan River, in Cocula, Guerrero, on
October 28 and 29, 2014, which to date still has no progress.
In addition, progress is pending in the investigations into the alleged concealment of the book by
Sidronio Casarrubias, leader of Guerreros Unidos, to the GIEI, as well as the performance of a PGR
official who would be linked to criminal groups.
Also missing is the resolution on the investigations of spying on the GIEI and the lawyers of the
families, as well as related to the allegations of torture of detainees.