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Ayotzinapa Students Ram Iguala Courthouse Gates, Burn Three Trucks After Anniversary March

Families press for the release of courthouse security videos tied to the 43.

Overview

  • An Ayotzinapa contingent used three food-distribution trucks to smash gates at the Palacio de Justicia in Iguala, attempted to breach the complex, and set the vehicles on fire while launching petardos.
  • State and municipal Protección Civil firefighters arrived to extinguish the blazes as the protesters withdrew.
  • As the last bus departed, onlookers threw stones from a nearby overpass without causing injuries, according to local reports.
  • The action capped the Luces y Sombras commemorations marking 11 years since the 2014 attacks and disappearances, with parents renewing calls for justice and expedited extraditions of suspects abroad.
  • Relatives emphasized long-standing demands for the court’s security-camera footage said to show part of the attacks, a site that has drawn repeated protests and is linked to the detention of retired magistrate Lambertina Galeana Marín.