The European Parliament adopted by 495 votes to 86, with 56 abstentions, a resolution on the disappearance of 43 teaching students in Mexico.
Parliament recalled that on 26 September 2014, six people, including three students, were killed when the police opened fire on protesting teaching students. Since then 43 students are still missing.
According to various sources those students were rounded up and driven away by police officers and handed over to unidentified armed men linked to a drug cartel.
Parliament strongly condemned the unacceptable forced disappearances and crimes in Iguala. It called on the Mexican authorities to:
- investigate all the crimes, including the finding of 28 bodies in clandestine graves;
- take all necessary steps to act promptly and in a transparent and impartial manner to identify, arrest and bring to justice the perpetrators of the crimes, and with no margin for impunity;
- continue the investigations until the students have been brought to safety.