Gualberto Ramírez Gutiérrez was arrested on Sunday over expenses of alleged torture and compelled disappearances in Mexico.
The previous head of Mexico’s federal anti-kidnapping unit has been arrested in reference to the disappearance of 43 school college students in 2014, an incident that has raised questions in regards to the affect of organised crime inside the authorities.
Gualberto Ramírez Gutiérrez was taken into custody on Sunday morning, in keeping with Alejandro Encinas, Mexico’s undersecretary for human rights, inhabitants and migration.
In a Twitter submit on Monday, Encinas defined that Ramírez Gutiérrez was “accused of the pressured disappearance of individuals” and “torture”. No additional particulars had been supplied.
Encinas additionally wrote {that a} federal court docket in Toluca had issued a jail order for eight troopers in relation to the mass kidnapping.
It was the newest twist in a multi-year, scandal-filled saga, as authorities try and unravel what occurred to the 43 school college students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Lecturers’ Faculty.
Ramírez Gutiérrez headed anti-kidnapping efforts for SEIDO, the Mexican legal professional normal’s organised crime workplace, on the time of the Ayotzinapa disappearances in September 2014.
The scholars had been travelling on buses by way of the southwest state of Guerrero as a part of an annual journey to Mexico Metropolis to commemorate the 1968 Tlatelolco pupil bloodbath.
However they had been intercepted by police close to town of Iguala — and their destiny has remained a thriller, although charred bone fragments belonging to a few of the scholars have been recovered.
Encinas has described the disappearances as a “state crime”. A former senator and longtime ally of present President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Encinas leads the reality fee investigating senior authorities officers who could have been concerned within the kidnapping and deaths.
“Their actions, omissions or participation allowed the disappearance and execution of the scholars, in addition to the homicide of six different folks,” Encinas stated in August, because the fee launched its report.
He added that members of Mexico’s army bore “clear duty” for the disappearances. Encinas has additionally stated there’s “no indication” that any of the scholars survived.
Ramírez Gutiérrez joined the anti-kidnapping unit below former President Felipe Calderón. He has beforehand come below scrutiny for his actions within the Ayotzinapa case.
Final March, a federal choose ordered his arrest for the alleged torture of Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, a suspected gang chief identified by the nickname El Cepillo.
Rodríguez Salgado had been arrested in 2015 for ordering the killing of the Ayotzinapa college students, however he was in the end launched in 2018.
In media interviews, he has since chronicled beatings and tried bribery by the hands of presidency officers, whom he describes as attempting to pin the scholars’ murders on him. Video has additionally emerged allegedly displaying the torture of suspects within the Ayotzinapa case.
