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Agence France-Presse

Nearly 12,000 people took to the streets of Guadalajara on Thursday, calling for peace and justice for three film students who were brutally murdered in a crime that has shocked Mexico.
Over a month after their disappearance, authorities confirmed on Monday that Salomon Aceves Gastelum, 25, Daniel Diaz, 20, and Marco Avalos, 20, were kidnapped, tortured and killed by drug cartel members. Afterwards, their bodies were dissolved in acid.
“The absurd war on drugs is taking our classmates and we will not allow it any more,” said Jesus Medina, a student leader at the University of Guadalajara.
Many of the demonstrators also rejected the official version of events surrounding the students’ deaths.

“What they presented is based on indications – there is not strong scientific evidence. There are many doubts,” said protester Oscar Juarez.
Meanwhile, there was horror following the confession of a YouTube star and rapper – Christian Omar Palma Gutierrez, also known as “QBA” – that he dissolved the students’ bodies in acid.
Gutierrez said he received 3,000 pesos (US$159) a week to work for the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel, one of the most powerful in Mexico.


“People like that who no longer feel … they have forgotten what it is to be human. A total lack of values,” student Jose Eduardo Gomez said.
Along with the students, who came from five local universities, teachers and relatives also marched shouting slogans and singing songs calling for peace.
According to official figures, more than 200,000 people have been murdered and over 30,000 have disappeared since the government launched a controversial military offensive against organised crime in late 2006 – although how many of those incidents were linked to gang activity is unknown.


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Thousands demand justice after three Mexican students killed by drug gang then dissolved in acid

Mexican students take part in a massive protest against violence in Mexico and the murder of three film students in Guadalajara, Mexico, on April 26, 2018. Photo: AFP

epa06695744 Thousands of people march during a protest for the murder of three young film students from the University of Audiovisual Arts (CAAV) in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, 26 April 2018. On 19 March film students Javier Salomon Aceves, Marco Avalos and Daniel Diaz returned from a school assignment when they were allegedly kidnaped, killed and disposed of in acid by members of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG). The Jalisco authorities attributed their murder to members of this cartel, which confused them with members of a rival gang. EPA-EFE/CARLOS ZEPEDA

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Shock at YouTube rap star QBA confessing to dissolving the bodies on behalf of the drug cartel that murdered the students


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Thousands demand justice after three Mexican students killed by drug gang then dissolved in acid

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Shock at YouTube rap star QBA confessing to dissolving the bodies on behalf of the drug cartel that murdered the students

Shock at YouTube rap star QBA confessing to dissolving the bodies on behalf of the drug cartel that murdered the students