Prosecutors said they have arrested Murillo Karam on charges he mishandled investigations into the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teacher college.
Murillo Karam, under pressure to quickly solve the case, announced in 2014 that the students had been killed and their bodies burned at a garbage dump by members of a drug gang. He called that hypothesis"the historic truth."Marco Ugarte / AP
The incident occurred near a large army base, and independent investigations have found that members of the military were aware of what was occurring. The students' families have long demanded that soldiers be included in the investigation. Mexican federal prosecutors previously issued arrest warrants for members of the military and federal police as well as Tomás Zeron, who at the time of the abduction headed the federal investigation agency, Mexico's detective agency.
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