Mexico arrests deputy police chief charged with student teacher massacre

(Vatican Radio)  The deputy police chief of a southern Mexican city has been arrested.  It is alleged that the deputy police chief supervised the handing over of protesting student teachers to gangsters, who then subsequently massacred them.  Authorities are continuing investigations into how police and organized crime combined to perpetrate the crime.
 
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Caught after fleeing

Federal police say Francisco Salgado, the former Deputy Municipal Police Chief of the Southern Mexican City of Iguala, fled after the outrage over the massacre last September.  After going into hiding with various relatives since September, he was recently caught in the City of Cuernavaca.  He has been accused of handing over almost half of the young student teachers who were arrested at a protest rally, to members of the so-called United Warriors gang who then killed the students and incinerated their remains.

Junior Police officers who are being held in custody, say organized crime had been paying Salgado the equivalent of almost 30,000 dollars per month for protection. 

Since the massacre, more than one hundred people have been arrested, including the former mayor and his wife along with scores of municipal police officers.  While Salgado is now in custody, his boss the city police chief Felipe Flores, is still wanted and on the run.
The case has been protested throughout Mexico and many other parts of the World, but is still far from resolved and the shock waves of disbelief and revulsion are refusing to subside.