Ayotzinapa Parents Condemn Exoneration of Eight Suspects After Filing 'Mistake'

This is part of "the government's strategy to simulate that it is punishing those responsible... which is why we condemn those facts." 

The parents of the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students launch a protest, on Thursday, after the judicial system exonerated eight people who were being investigated in relation to the missing pupils. The decision was taken on a technicality regarding how the investigation was filled by the Attorney General's Office.

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This is part of "the government's strategy to simulate that it is punishing those responsible... which is why we condemn those facts," said the spokesperson for the parents, Meliton Ortega, who is also one of the parents of the 43.

A Judge in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas freed eight people involved in the investigation, by saying that the judicial files were integrated in a wrong way, by the Attorney General's Office (PGR). 

This "mistake" on the filing confirms, for the parents, that the intention of the Federal Government was to "detain them only to liberate them after," as expressed by Ortega, during the march in Iguala, the city where the 43 students disappeared from on September 26, 2014.

Ortega said the relatives will continue to fight for truth, and that their spirits were lifted after Wednesday's meeting with President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). "By every means possible, we will reach the end, we will arrive at the truth in the investigation and we will continue to demand that it be an investigation that will allow us to clarify the case and see the whereabouts of the students," Ortega said.

The parents of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students held a meeting with AMLO, who reaffirmed his commitment to establishing a truth commission to investigate the disappearances.