Deputy secretary of safety Ricardo Mejía introduced the inside track on Thursday, regarding Rodríguez most effective as “the commander of the twenty seventh Infantry Battalion when the occasions in Iguala took place.” He didn’t specify any allegations in opposition to Rodríguez. A Secretariat of Govt’s spokesperson showed to CNN that Rodríguez Pérez has retired with the rank of normal.
CNN is operating to touch Rodríguez’s protection.
Mejía stated {that a} general of 4 arrest warrants have been issued in opposition to unidentified participants of the Mexican military. 3 of the 4 had been arrested, he stated.
Mexico’s Secretary of Protection didn’t reply to CNN’s request for remark.
The lacking scholars have been intercepted through native police and federal army forces on September 26, 2014, whilst touring towards Mexico Town from their trainer’s faculty close to the city Ayotzinapa.
That they had meant to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco bloodbath, the place executive forces killed as many as 300 scholar demonstrators in Mexico Town. However they by no means made it.
The bullet-riddled buses have been later observed within the streets of Iguala, and a few closing scholars who have been at the buses accused safety forces of opening hearth. However forty-three in their friends have been by no means discovered once more.
On August 18, a fact fee established through Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a bombshell document concluding that the vanished scholars have been sufferers of “state-sponsored crime,” alleging that brokers from a number of executive companies concurred with components of arranged crime to devote the killings. In step with the document, a minimum of six of the ones sufferers have been first kidnapped and later killed underneath Rodríguez’s oversight.
“It’s presumed that six of the scholars remained alive for 4 days after the occasions and that they have been killed and disappeared at the orders of the possibly then-Colonel José Rodríguez Pérez,” stated Mexico’s most sensible human rights authentic Alejandro Encinas right through the August press convention along Lopez Obrador.
The document, Encinas added, alleges that on September 30, 2014, Rodríguez stated that “they’d already looked after the six scholars that have been left alive.”
