MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors will take new testimony from federal security officials to determine what part they played during the disappearance of 43 students training to be teachers last year, which battered the government’s image at home and abroad.
Families of the victims and an independent experts have pushed to clarify what the army and federal police did on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, when the students clashed with local police in the southwestern city of Iguala before disappearing.
“Everything needed to settle the case will be investigated, everything,” said Eber Betanzos, deputy attorney general for human rights, who will head a new inquiry into the case.
The new probe would include the questioning of federal forces, both those who had already been interrogated and those who had not, he said in an interview with Reuters this week.
The disappearance of the 43 students created a political storm for President Enrique Pena Nieto over his government’s shortcomings in the fight against corruption and impunity.
