U.S. authorities on Wednesday deported to Mexico Alejandro Tenescalco, a former Iguala municipal police officer who had been a fugitive from justice for eight years in connection with the Ayotzinapa case in which 43 student teachers disappeared.
The National Migration Institute (INM) has reported that US Customs and Border Protection agents reportedly detained Alejandro ‘N’ on December 20 when he attempted to enter the United States illegally. However, on Wednesday it was determined that he did not meet the requirements to be granted asylum.
Thus, one month after his detention by Washington, Tenescalco has been handed over to the Mexican government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the San Jerónimo-Santa Teresa international crossing in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
In 2015, a judge issued an arrest warrant for Tenescalco for alleged organized crime and kidnapping, stemming from the disappearance of the normalistas. He also had an immigration alert and was wanted by Interpol.
The former agent, for whom the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) had offered 10 million Mexican pesos — around 500,000 euros — to find him, was working as a police supervisor in the town the night the students were attacked, according to the newspaper ‘El Sol de Mexico’.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
