Mexico arrests ex-attorney general in 2014 case of 43 missing students

Charges against Murillo Karam include forced disappearance, torture, and obstruction of justice during the investigation

Mexico’s former attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam (AFP via Getty)

Mexico’s ex-attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam has been arrested in connection with an investigation into the disappearance of 43 students from a radical teacher’s college in 2014.

Mr Murillo Karam, 74, was arrested from his home in Mexico City on Friday and cooperated “without resistance”, according to a statement from current attorney general Alejando Gertz Manero’s office.

In 2020, Mr Manero accused the former attorney general of “orchestrating a massive media trick” and leading a “generalised cover-up” in the case that has now been declared a state-sponsored crime.