Former anti-kidnapping head arrested in Mexico’s Ayotzinapa case
Al JazeeraGualberto Ramírez Gutiérrez was arrested on Sunday over charges of alleged torture and forced disappearances in Mexico. The former head of Mexico’s federal anti-kidnapping unit has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 college students in 2014, an incident that has raised questions about the influence of organised crime within the government. Gualberto Ramírez Gutiérrez was taken into custody on Sunday morning, according to Alejandro Encinas, Mexico’s undersecretary for human rights, population and migration. Ramírez Gutiérrez headed anti-kidnapping efforts for SEIDO, the Mexican attorney general’s organised crime office, at the time of the Ayotzinapa disappearances in September 2014. A former senator and longtime ally of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Encinas leads the truth commission investigating senior government officials who may have been involved in the kidnapping and deaths.
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