Protesters broke into the presidential palace in Mexico

During a protest against the slow investigation into the kidnapping of 43 students almost ten years ago, masked demonstrators broke into the Mexican government headquarters. They rammed an SUV into a side door of the National Palace in Mexico City on Wednesday, briefly entering the historic building as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held his daily news conference there.

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Protesters were driven back with tear gas

According to media reports, security forces used tear gas, drove out the demonstrators and prevented others from entering. The relatives of the disappeared students have set up a protest camp in front of the National Palace and are demanding a meeting with López Obrador. They accuse the president of breaking his promise to find the students and claim that the military is withholding documents important to the investigation. López Obrador called the protests a “provocation” against his government.

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September 26th marks the tenth anniversary of the so-called Ayotzinapa case. Corrupt police officers kidnapped the students from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college in the southern city of Iguala and handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos crime syndicate. The background to the crime has not yet been fully clarified. Soldiers are also said to have been involved in the crime. So far only the remains of three victims have been identified. The DNA tests were carried out by forensic experts in Innsbruck in recent years.

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