Mexico's former attorney general, responsible for the controversial investigation into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero, was arrested yesterday.

This was reported by France Press, citing a statement from the Prosecutor General's Office.

Jesus Murillo Karam was detained at his home in Mexico City on charges of kidnapping, torture and obstruction of justice.

He did not resist the arrest.

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Murillo Caram headed the prosecutor's office from 2012 to 2015 under then-President Enrique Peña Nieto.

On the night of September 26-27, 2014, a group of 43 students traveling by bus from the southern state of Guerrero to the Mexican capital to take part in a demonstration were detained by local police who were acting in concert with the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel. .

They were then shot and their bodies burned for unclear reasons.

Only the remains of three of them were identified, BTA recalls.

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