“For us, this is important and has positive elements that will help us learn the truth and get justice,” the family said in a statement Friday.
Despite years of scrutiny and international attention, the fate of the students remains an unsolved mystery.
In September 2014, while students were visiting the southwestern city of Iguala from a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, their buses were stopped by local police and federal troops.
What exactly happened after that — and why — remains unknown. However, survivors, initially made up of 100 students, said their bus had been stopped and shot by armed police and soldiers. The bullet-riddled bus was later found on the city’s streets, with shattered windows and blood spattered.
About 43 students subsequently disappeared.
A government report last week called the incident a “national crime,” based on thousands of documents, text messages, phone records, testimonies and other forms of evidence.
He had led the state’s investigation into the disappearance of students but was criticized by then-President Enrique Peña Nieto for a lack of transparency in his handling of the matter.
The parents of 43 people welcomed his arrest.
“Today, the judge who heard the case agrees with us. Murillo Callam conducted a dubious, irregular investigation, plagued by torture, manipulation and falsification of evidence, thus creating a lie that we cannot know. the whereabouts of the child,” the parents’ joint statement said.
“We cannot give up the fight until their whereabouts are fully proven. Our families know their fate will be painful, especially if it is dead, but if they give us scientific and clear evidence, we will go home mourns” them. So far, we have no evidence of this. So our demands and struggles continue. “
CNN’s Fidel Gutierrez contributed reporting.
