The Mexican judiciary has issued arrest warrants for 64 army and police officials for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014, according to a report by the French Press Agency (AFP).

The Mexican prosecutor’s office indicated that the decision concerns 20 military and 44 police officers.

The case concerned a group of students from a teacher training school in Ayotzinapa, in the state of Gejiro, who, on the night of 26/27 September 2014, traveled to the nearby city of Iguala to “request” buses to Mexico to participate in a demonstration.

The investigation revealed that the police arrested 43 young men, including in a case involving the Gehiro Onidos drug smuggling gang, then shot them and burned their bodies in a landfill for reasons that have not yet been clarified. The remains of more than 3 of them have not been identified.

And the Ayotzinapa Truth Commission, set up by Mexican President Andrés López Obrador, said in a report released Thursday that the military was partly responsible for the incident.

Based on this report, the country’s former Attorney General Jesús Moro Karam was arrested at his home in Mexico City on charges of “enforced disappearance, torture and offenses against the judiciary” without putting up any resistance, Public reports. Prosecutor’s office.