Mexican judge arrested over 2014 disappearance of 43 students

Lambertina Galeana Marín is suspected of having been behind the disappearance of key CCTV footage.

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Lambertina Galeana Marín was the president of the Superior Tribunal of Justice in the state of Guerrero when the trainee teachers went missing in 2014.

The 79-year-old is suspected of having given an order that led to the disappearance of CCTV footage which investigators said was key to the case.

She was arrested in the city of Chilpancingo, three years after a warrant for her arrest had been issued.

The disappearance of the 43 students - who all attended the same teacher training college in the town of Ayotzinapa - has long haunted Mexico.