Omar Gomez, head of the special prosecutor's office for the case, said the warrants had been issued for the 'material and intellectual authors' of the crime.
Mexican authorities have issued dozens of arrest warrants for police and soldiers whom they believe may have participated in the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students, the head of the investigation said on Saturday.
The announcement came during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on the sixth anniversary of the students' kidnapping.During the event, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Mexico's Undersecretary of Human Rights Alejandro Encinas held fabrics embroidered by relatives of the victims, many of whom attended the ceremony holding large pictures of the disappeared students.
Prosecutors initially said the cartel mistook the students for members of a rival gang and killed them before incinerating their bodies at a garbage dump and tossing the remains in a river.Mexico finally arrests suspect in case of 43 missing students
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