A suspected drug cartel boss allegedly linked to the disappearance a decade in the past of 43 school college students was arrested in Mexico after being launched from jail in 2019, authorities stated Friday.
Based on AFP on Saturday, Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, alias “El Gil,” is an alleged chief of the Guerreros Unidos cartel, accused of being behind the disappearance and suspected murders of the scholars from Ayotzinapa academics’ school in 2014.
Lopez Astudillo had been arrested in September 2015 within the southern metropolis of Taxco, Guerrero state, about 35km (21 miles) north of the city of Iguala from the place the scholars vanished.
“Gildardo Lopez Astudillo was detained,” a federal safety supply with data of the case informed reporters Friday, asking for his title not for use as a result of he was not licensed to talk to media.
Lopez Astudillo had been transferred to the Altiplano most safety jail in Mexico state, the supply stated.
He was arrested on expenses of “organized crime,” though the investigation may very well be expanded, the supply stated.
In September 2014, the 43 college students had been touring to a political demonstration in Mexico Metropolis when investigators imagine they have been kidnapped by the drug cartel in collusion with corrupt police.
The precise circumstances of their disappearance are nonetheless unknown, however a reality fee arrange by the federal government has branded the case a “state crime,” saying the army shared accountability, both instantly or via negligence.
Arrests have been made or ordered for dozens of suspects, together with army personnel and a former legal professional common who led a controversial investigation into the mass disappearance.
The stays of only some of the victims have been recognized.
Lopez Astudillo was launched in 2019 — a transfer condemned by members of the family of the lacking college students — after a decide discovered the proof in opposition to him was obtained illegally.
His arrest comes as family are making ready demonstrations to mark the anniversary of the scholars’ disappearance.