Jose Luis Abarca is charged with kidnapping of 43 missing students
Jose Luis Abarca, the former mayor of the city of Iguala, who has long been suspected of being involved in the disappearance of 43 college students in southwestern Mexico, has finally been charged by officials with the crime. Both Abarca and his wife were arrested late last year in connection to the case in Southwestern Mexico, where 43 students from a teachers college went missing since October. Maria de los Angeles Pineda, the former first lady of Iguala had already been charged earlier this month in connection to the case. SEE ALSO: FBI investigating the case of 43 missing students in Mexico Tomas Zeron, director of criminal investigations at the federal State Attorney Generals office confirmed publicly that an arrest warrant had been obtained for the Jose Luis Abarca and 44 other suspects in connection to the disappearance of the students, all feared to be dead by the authorities. News agency Reuters reported that Zeron spoke to the media after meeting with the families of the missing students to tell them the latest advancements in the case. After fleeing their hometown in 2014, federal police arrested Abarca and Pineda while sleeping in a Mexico City apartment this November. Authorities believe the students were murdered and burned before being buried, but despite the finding of multiple mass graves in the area of Southwestern Mexico, only one body has been positively identified as that of one of the students. SEE ALSO: 43 missing students case through the eyes of a ‘Normalista’ Besides the case of the 43 missing students, Abarca was already in jail facing charges of links to organized crime as well as kidnapping and murder charges.The post Jose Luis Abarca is charged with kidnapping of 43 missing students appeared first on Voxxi.
Jose Luis Abarca, the former mayor of the city of Iguala, who has long been suspected of being involved in the disappearance of 43 college students in southwestern Mexico, has finally been charged by officials with the crime.
Both Abarca and his wife were arrested late last year in connection to the case in Southwestern Mexico, where 43 students from a teachers college went missing since October. Maria de los Angeles Pineda, the former first lady of Iguala had already been charged earlier this month in connection to the case.
SEE ALSO: FBI investigating the case of 43 missing students in Mexico
Tomas Zeron, director of criminal investigations at the federal State Attorney Generals office confirmed publicly that an arrest warrant had been obtained for the Jose Luis Abarca and 44 other suspects in connection to the disappearance of the students, all feared to be dead by the authorities.
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News agency Reuters reported that Zeron spoke to the media after meeting with the families of the missing students to tell them the latest advancements in the case.
After fleeing their hometown in 2014, federal police arrested Abarca and Pineda while sleeping in a Mexico City apartment this November.
Authorities believe the students were murdered and burned before being buried, but despite the finding of multiple mass graves in the area of Southwestern Mexico, only one body has been positively identified as that of one of the students.
SEE ALSO: 43 missing students case through the eyes of a ‘Normalista’
Besides the case of the 43 missing students, Abarca was already in jail facing charges of links to organized crime as well as kidnapping and murder charges.
The post Jose Luis Abarca is charged with kidnapping of 43 missing students appeared first on Voxxi.
