Play media fileThe massive kidnapping in Iguale took place at the end of September 2014 in Mexico . 43 students of the pedagogical college disappeared. According to official data, they went to the city of Iguala de la Independencia (state of Guerrero ) to participate in a demonstration against the discriminatory practice of hiring and funding by the authorities. On the way, they were intercepted by representatives of the city police. The details of their further fate remain unclear, but the official investigation revealed that eleven students were illegally detained, then transferred to members of the criminal syndicate and, presumably, died.
Mexican authorities call probable customers the abduction of the mayor of the city, José Luis, Abarka Velázquez, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pinedu. After the incident, they both fled, along with the city police chief Felipe Flores Velasquez. The couple was arrested a month later in Mexico City. The massive abduction of students quickly became the largest political and public scandal in the entire presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto . The incident led to mass protests and anti-government protests throughout Mexico.