It was in September 2014 that a group of 43 teacher students disappeared when they took buses to the city of Iguala in Mexico, to protest against cuts in funding for the university.

What exactly happened to the students is still unclear.

The official investigation concluded that they were abducted by corrupt police and then handed over to members of criminal gangs, who killed the students and dumped their bodies.

The inquiry that led to that information was criticized by an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which was appointed to investigate the case in 2015.

One theory that the Commission came up with is that students were killed after one of the buses they were traveling in was mistaken for a bus carrying drugs.

The experts have also criticized the fact that they were not allowed to interview soldiers who were stationed in the area at the time of the disappearance, writes Reuters.

Identified this summer

In July this year, a university in Austria examined bone fragments found one kilometer from the place where the bodies are said to have been dumped.

Using DNA technology, they were able to confirm that the remains were from one of the missing students.

Prior to that, the remains of only one of the 43 students had been identified.

In Mexico, the abduction of students has become a symbol of the fight against violence and corruption.

When the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018, he appointed a truth commission to investigate the incident.

New information this weekend

Now the president announces that this weekend, exactly six years after the disappearance, he will provide new information about the case, reports Reuters.

Among other things, he will provide information on "ongoing arrest warrants".

"The most important thing of all is to find out where the young men are," the president told Reuters.

According to three different sources to Reuters, with insight into the new details of the investigation, Mexican authorities are preparing deprivation of liberty of military personnel.

The Mexican Ministry of Defense has declined to comment on the information at this time, writes Reuters.