The group is accused of “organized crime, enforced disappearance, torture, murder and crimes against the administration of justice,” the prosecutor’s office said. The prosecutor’s office did not identify those allegedly involved and added only that both the arrests and charges in any case “will be disclosed in the corresponding criminal proceedings.” As of Saturday afternoon, the institutions had not made a public statement about the arrest warrants. CNN reached out to them for comment and they did not respond. The students were visiting the southwestern city of Iguala from a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa when their buses were intercepted by local police and federal military forces in September 2014. Exactly what happened next remains unknown, as most of the missing students have never been found. . But bullet-riddled buses later appeared on city streets with broken windows and blood. Survivors of the original group of 100 reported that their buses were stopped by armed police and soldiers who suddenly opened fire. The case sparked international outrage. The judge’s decision on Friday was released hours after the arrest of Mexico’s former attorney general, Jesus Murillo Caram, in connection with the disappearances. Murillo Karam led the state investigation into the disappearance. The prosecutor’s office said it suspects him of “crimes of enforced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice in the Ayodhya case.” CNN does not know if Murillo Karam has legal representation or how he is doing before the charges. The former attorney general’s arrest and the issuance of arrest warrants came a day after a government truth commission presented a report that concluded the students’ disappearance was a “state crime,” in which members of the “Guerreros Unidos criminal group and agents from various institutions of the Mexican state,” said Mexico’s Undersecretary for Human Rights, Population and Immigration Alejandro Encinas. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the government will continue to work to arrest those involved in the crime and find out exactly what happened to the missing students. CNN’s Karina Maciel contributed to this report.
