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Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, November 7, in Chilpancingo, the Attorney General, Jesús Murillo, met the parents of the 43 students missing in Ayotzinapa (see Fides 10/10/2014), and told them the confession of 3 hired assassins who described how they executed and burned the bodies of the students, and then got rid of the remains by throwing them into the San Juan river. The news was widely reported by all the media in Mexico and other countries.
The Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM) issued a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, expressing solidarity with the students’ families and calls for an end to this climate of violence, "We join our voice to yours and that of our entire society, and we say: enough with so much corruption, impunity and violence!" The statement continues:"We urge the authorities to carry out thorough investigation and find out with certainty what happened to the missing students and severly punish those involved in this atrocious crime. We also call to enforce the rule of law, to end all forms of violence, illegal activities, corruption, impunity, and to say stop to the complicity of some officials with organized crime".
The document is signed on behalf of all the Mexican Bishops, from the Archbishop of Guadalajara and President of CEM, Card. José Francisco Robles Ortega, to the Secretary of CEM, the Auxiliary Bishop of Puebla, His Exc. Mgr. Eugenio Lira Rugarcia.
The dramatic story continues to inflame people and continues to have consequences regarding public order: in the last hour a large group of students and other people demonstrated in front of the government building in the capital, setting fire to the doors of the building. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 10/11/2014)
