SEDENA infiltrated normal in Ayotzinapa and other key points revealed by the third GIEI report

Crime scene manipulation in Cocula and falsification of documents were some data confirmed by the independent group investigating Ayotzinapa case

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Angela Buitrago, a member of a team of international experts, delivers a speech next to Francisco Cox and Claudia Paz during the delivery of a report on the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teacher training college, at the Interior Ministry building in Mexico City, Mexico, March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Last Monday, March 28, 2022, the Third Report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) was released, in which the progress made in the investigation related to the case of enforced disappearance of the 43 students of the Isidro Burgos school in Ayotzinapa was announced on the night of the 26th and September 27, 2014 in Iguala, Guerrero.

The infiltration of the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) into the Isidro Burgos rural school in order to monitor students prior to their disappearance, the manipulation of the Cocula landfill site, the falsification and simulation of delivery of documents, as well as the authorities being aware of the activities illegal members of Guerreros Unidos, were some facts confirmed by the interdisciplinary group charged with investigating the Ayotzinapa case yesterday at the premises of the Ministry of the Interior.

These are four key points that the GIEI report revealed:

The group of researchers announced that there were at least two confirmed surveillance and follow-up operations on the students of the Isidro Burgos standard by all the battalions of the state of Guerrero. This included the infiltration of soldiers into the contingent of the students who acted as “intelligence agents”.

Claudia Baz, former prosecutor of Guatemala and member of GIEI, stressed that it was because of these same espionage operations ordered by the Command of the 35th military zone two days before September 26, that SEDENA became aware “minute by minute” of the disappearance of the young people.

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Claudia Paz [right] and Angela Buitrago [left] at the presentation of the Third GIEI Report (Photo: REUTERS /Edgard Garrido)

The GIEI had access to several Navy documents classified as “secret”. But it was through 100 hours of video that was in the possession of SEMAR, that unrecorded operations of manipulation of the alleged crime scene were verified in the Cocula garbage dump, Guerrero, where the “historical truth” states that the students were cremated and their remains were later thrown into the river St. John's.

The videos show how at least a dozen alleged military agents manipulate the site before the arrival of then-Prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam, moving bundles taken from vans and then placing them in important discovery points for the case.

During the more than two hours that the recording lasts, this work of the elements of the Navy can be appreciated, who, said the investigators, caused the contamination of the scene, making official investigations of the experts difficult.

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The videos obtained by the group of researchers were essential to confirm manipulations at the scene of the garbage dump in Cocula, Guerrero, by the Navy (Photo: SCREENSHOT /YOUTUBE CENTRO PRODH)

Ángela Buitrago, a Colombian lawyer who is a member of GIEI, reported that there are many false data due to a situation of simulated information delivery carried out by some agencies on the Ayotzinapa case. The group's researchers have detected that several institutions provide information contrary to the truth.

Among these irregularities are truths constructed with “anonymous” testimonies that are actually false, dates invented in place and form of capture of detainees, police blogs and information cards that do not tell the truth, change in the number of patrols that intervened in the events, destruction of evidence, among others. other totally false documents.

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The population has protested on multiple occasions demanding clarification of the facts and justice for the 43 students of Ayotzinapa. (Photo: CLAUDIO CRUZ /AFP)

To all of the above, it is added that all the authorities already had very detailed knowledge and information on the activities of racking, planting, cultivation and manufacture of heroin and poppy in the area run by the organization “Guerreros Unidos”, including the transfer of buses.

On the afternoon of March 29, relatives of the 43 missing students from Ayotzinapa held a press conference in which they gratefully acknowledged the most recent GIEI report. They also called on the government headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for the reluctance of its institutions to cooperate with the investigation.

They also requested that both the former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, and the Mexican Army with the entire chain of command responsible for withholding information be investigated, and questioned the reason for the reluctance to hand over important documents for the advancement of the investigations.

But mainly, they demanded that they work with the aim of finding their children and punishing those guilty of their disappearance.

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