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Chilpancingo (Mexico),.- Members of the Federation of Campesino and Socialist Students of Mexico (FECSM) threw Molotov cocktails and burned three vans in front of the Palace of Justice in Iguala, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, on the afternoon of this Saturday, after eleven years had passed since the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa.
Around 4:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. GMT), the protesters got off 13 of the 36 buses and surrounded these facilities, located in the municipality of Iguala, where key videos were hidden to unravel what happened on the night of the 26th and the early morning of September 27, 2014, the date of the disappearance of the normalistas.
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The group of young people tried to tear down the perimeter fence of the Courthouse after seizing delivery vans from the Marinela company, vehicles with which they knocked down two gates.
Without the presence of the authorities, the members of the FECSM launched rockets inside the offices while outside they set fire to the three vehicles, which generated a scenario full of columns of smoke.
In turn, a group of five men were throwing stones from a bridge at the protesters' buses.
The vandalism of this institution in southern Mexico occurs, according to them, due to the lack of justice in the case of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, one of the most well-known in the country for its human rights violations, and also because they demand the delivery of the videos from September 26th and 27th.
Due to the disappearance of those videos, last May, magistrate Lambertina Galeana Marín, who at that time was president of the Superior Court of Justice, was arrested, and is currently in custody.
This same Saturday, family members of the 43 students held a rally at the memorial created in memory of Julio César Mondragón Fontes, who appeared on September 27th murdered, tortured, and with his face skinned.
Later, they went to the obelisks built on the site where Julio César Ramírez Nava and Daniel Solís Gallardo were murdered on the night of the 26th.
During the rally, Melitón Ortega, the spokesperson for the mothers and fathers of the 43, considered it an act of "terrorism" that after 11 years they do not know who is responsible for the disappearance of the students.
And he communicated to the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, that his activities are not acts of provocation but of "rebellion in the face of so much injustice, and so much impunity in the case of the 43."
This march, following the 11 years since the disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School in the municipality of Iguala, was led by the students' mothers and fathers, as well as members of the Federation of Campesino and Socialist Students of Mexico (FECSM).
