Gertz Manero goes against the commander of the Semar for cover-up in Ayotzinapa: Riva Palacio

According to Raymundo Riva Palacio's most recent column for EjeCentral, he explained that Alejandro Gertz Manero will now seek to bring Admiral José Rafael Ojeda of the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) to the authorities, for the alleged crime of cover-up in the Ayotzinapa case.

This, after the Third Report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) was released on Monday, March 28, 2022, in which the progress in the investigation related to the case of the forced disappearance of the 43 students of the normal Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa was revealed.

The GIEI had access to several Navy documents classified as “secret”. But it was through 100 hours of video that was in the possession of SEMAR, that unrecorded operations of manipulation of the alleged crime scene were verified in the Cocula garbage dump, Guerrero, where the “historical truth” states that the students were cremated and their remains were later thrown into the river St. John's.

The videos show how at least a dozen alleged military agents manipulate the site before the arrival of then-Prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam, moving bundles taken from vans and then placing them in important discovery points for the case.

During the more than 100 hours of the recording, this work of the elements of the Navy can be appreciated, who, said the investigators, caused the contamination of the scene, hindering the official investigations of the experts.

The video was delivered by Ojeda himself after the intervention of the Undersecretary of the Interior, Alejandro Encinas, to open the doors to the Armed Forces to the GIEI.

This information, the journalist said, portrays the life of the group between devices called Aructus, in which drones were recognizing territory, when they encountered that information.

When investigating a little further, the writer warned, the vice-admiral of the Naval Zone was reached when the events occurred: Admiral Ojeda, who was immediately put to the research center.

Finally, he added that these actions are aimed at the prosecutor setting aside the most recent failures for his institution, which is why he took the case in the first place.

He also added that despite being a scapegoat, Admiral Ojeda “won't mind walking towards a confrontation with Mexican Armed Forces authorities.”

And about the prosecutor, he assured that as soon as he crosses the limit of manipulating information to make available to the Navy as evidence, then there will be nothing that can stop this practice, and he will only have gained a little time.

On the other hand, Mexico had confirmed at least two surveillance and follow-up operations on the students of the Isidro Burgos standard by all the battalions of the state of Guerrero.

This included the infiltration of soldiers into the contingent of the students who acted as “intelligence agents”.

Claudia Baz, former prosecutor of Guatemala and member of GIEI, stressed that it was because of these same espionage operations ordered by the Command of the 35th military zone two days before September 26, that SEDENA became aware “minute by minute” of the disappearance of the young people.

“There were two intelligence operations, follow-up, that were in operation on 26 and 27 September 2014; a follow-up that we are going to call 'historical', almost counterinsurgent,” he said.

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