Seven Guerrero police officers arrested in enforced-disappearance case
El País México reports that seven municipal officers in Coyuca de Benítez were arrested after a detained man was later found dead; authorities say the case remains under investigation.
Seven Guerrero municipal police officers arrested over alleged enforced disappearance
El País México reports that seven municipal police officers in Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero, were arrested Thursday on alleged enforced-disappearance charges. The state prosecutor’s office says the officers were allegedly involved in a roadside checkpoint where a man identified as José Ángel was detained on Sept. 11 and later found dead with at least two gunshot wounds. Local media also reported possible signs of torture, but the available report does not provide an independent forensic finding.
The arrests followed a search of the municipal Security Secretariat carried out with the Army, National Guard and state personnel. Authorities also seized two patrol vehicles. The prosecutor’s office said the officers “would be related” to the Sept. 11 events, language that leaves their involvement and criminal responsibility unresolved. Demonstrations were organized after the case angered residents, and the Army took over security duties in the municipality of about 14,000 people, according to local reporting cited by El País México.
The local security headquarters remains under state prosecutors’ guard, while the case unfolds against the broader backdrop of criminal violence in Guerrero. The source also notes the unresolved Ayotzinapa case, involving 43 students who disappeared in 2014, as regional context rather than evidence of a connection to these seven officers.
Read the original report in El País México