Mexican soldiers may be arrested in infamous missing students case - sources


  • World
  • Wednesday, 23 Sep 2020

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities are preparing arrest warrants that could for the first time target soldiers in the investigation into the 2014 abduction and presumed massacre of 43 students, according to three sources briefed on the new developments.

The unsolved kidnapping of the young men who were training to be teachers convulsed the country and garnered international condemnation as one of the darkest examples of the government's longstanding difficulty preventing violence or convicting those responsible.

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