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Ayotzinapa Anniversary Protesters Attack Iguala Courthouse, Torch Delivery Trucks

Families renew demands for Army intelligence files, release of court videos, extraditions after 11 years without answers.

Overview

  • Parents of the 43 and supporters marched in Iguala and Chilpancingo to close the Luces y Sombras commemorations and press for justice.
  • Normalistas rammed gates, hurled petardos and set at least three Marinela delivery trucks ablaze at the Palacio de Justicia in Iguala.
  • State and municipal Protección Civil firefighters arrived after the protesters withdrew and extinguished the vehicle fires.
  • As the last buses left Iguala, people on a nearby overpass threw stones at students and a bus, with no injuries reported.
  • Movement leaders renewed calls for the 800 Army folios, the release of judicial security videos and the extradition of fugitives such as Tomás Zerón, while noting the detention of retired magistrate Lambertina Galeana Marín over missing 2014 footage.