For 8 months, the Secretary of National Defense (SEDENA) trained an infantryman, Julio Cesar Lopez Palotzin, to infiltrate the Rural Normal School “Raul Isidro Burgos” of Ayotzinapa, Equal to, Warriorand gather intelligence information, but disappeared along with 42 other students, a month after beginning his mission.
Lopez Palotzin was attached to the 50th Chilpancingo Infantry Battalion, Warriorwhere he was 5 years and 9 months old, according to two reports delivered by the Division General Alejandro Saavedra Hernandezthen commander of the 35 Military Zone in Chilpancingo.
Julio César López Palotzin was identified in the military environment as “Information Search Body (OBI) with student facade”, and during 2013 he began an 8-month military intelligence training program.
On June 6, 2014, López Palotzin began the procedures to enter the normal school “with the purpose of acquiring the student façade,” according to General Saavedra.
“Soldier López Palotzin forwarded the information obtained, by means of messages and phone calls sporadically, whenever the situation allowed it,” the report says.
However, 36 days later, on the night of September 26, 2014, López Palotzin and 42 students from Ayotzinapa were disappeared by authorities and criminals, according to the version of the federal government.
One of the reports of the general of Division General Alejandro Saavedra Hernández indicates that the last time he had contact with his element was on September 27, 2014, while the other says that it was on September 26, at 11:30 a.m. .