A girl at a protest in Mexico. File photoMEXICO CITY, Aug 20Former Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam (2021-2015), who led the agency during the first investigation into the case of missing students from Ayotsinapa College, has been arrested in Mexico City, the country's Attorney General's Office said. .Local newspaper sources confirmed that the prosecutor's report refers to the country's former prosecutor general, who was detained while leaving his home in the metropolitan area of Lomas de Chapultepec. «Historical truth». Prosecutors' findings that the students were kidnapped and burned by gangsters were the subject of widespread international criticism and were subsequently refuted. Mexico's Interior Ministry, in a preliminary report released on Friday, called the disappearance of students from a rural teacher's school in September 2014 a state crime in which members of the Guerreros Unidos gang and agents of various Mexican government agencies. At the same time, specialists during the new investigation could not find any indication that the missing students could be alive. Forty-three students from Ayotsinapa College disappeared in the city of Iguala in September 2014. As it became known later, they were kidnapped by local police and handed over to bandits, after which the students were allegedly killed in different places. An analysis of the bone remains that were found during the search operations confirmed the identity of three of the missing students. The reporter from the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that during the investigation, 26 key witnesses — members of criminal gangs and their relatives, as well as witnesses and participants in the events, died or were killed. 
The body of a reporter who disappeared a week ago has been found in northern Mexico
