to top it off. training successful. dr chatter. starts july 27th. i was told wanted to be a teacher. he was studying at the u. it seemed up a teacher training college in the mexican state of ghetto. but one bullet changed everything. this footage shows the fateful moment. i'll go and around 50 other students had commandeered public buses to get back to the college after a demonstration such actions aren't unusual in parts of mexico.

suddenly police stopped the bus and then opened fire on the arm students hit by a bullet although fell to the ground. 6 students were shot dead 2 more were seriously wounded. 43 students all the age between 18 and 23 were abducted they've never been seen since just like thousands of others in mexico. a number of police officers were subsequently arrested accused of carrying out the murders a number of the weapons used in those crimes were german military grade 36 assault rifles made by a heckler and koch. but the german government hadn't approved their export to this region.

were. it all began in 2005 german arms manufacturer heckler and koch wanted to export thousands of g $36.00 assault rifles to mexico along with submachine guns so the company submitted an application to the german economics ministry in berlin but the foreign ministry expressed concern citing human rights violations by mexican security forces including abductions and murder and get away at all and other states. the economics ministry sought a compromise meanwhile heckler and koch was waiting impatiently for permission to export as the company's then sales representative from mexico explains. we can only identify him as marcus b. . and then come to be deformed over with and asked by sounds whether we could change the designated and use it to figure it because some ministry had requested

that certain aspects shouldn't be mentioned and. heckler and koch had originally presented this and you certificate from the mexican defense ministry to the german economics ministry. the details of the certificate showed clearly that the weapons were partly intended for mexican states considered particularly dangerous. you may occasionally play for and so i wrote an email to my wife from the computer. i had. to ask the head of de camp the official body responsible for arms sales in mexico whether it was possible not to name these 3 states and to issue a new and use so once the economics ministry had informed tecla and call which mexican states would not be approved if the company submitted a new end you certificate where the critical states were no longer mentioned but the strange thing was the exact same number of guns would still be supplied to

mexico which surely should have been noticed. but approval for the export was given and the deal began. over the following years a team from headline coffee traveled all over mexico showing police officers in the army how to use the firearms. here they aren't colima but they also went to the states that were supposedly banned including get a table where the weapons would soon be used. on the 19 year old. for example. this was him dancing at his brother's wedding just days before security forces would destroy his life forever. it was a clever child really bright he was always keen to see everything and to learn that's why he went to college now last call.

details of that night haunt the family. of those brother lay on their tells us what happened. in the middle but wolf. i knew there were a number of passes or was in the 1st i want you tomorrow it was when the attack started they were already heading back to the college it was the 1st the police started pursuing them then a police vehicle not long after the junction i had to stop them leaving the city. in about 3 yeah so the students got out of the bus. and i was one of the 1st to get out he wanted to talk to the police who were blocking the road in the hope that they could proceed or not the police immediately started shooting. but. when i was hit by a bullet the other screamed for help. they called an ambulance for their friend

while running for cover themselves more shots fell. that same night aldo's family rushed to the hospital in one but you i saw him and he had a bullet wound to his head the bullet went in here and came out here. one of the heckler and koch instructors started to have doubts. in 2010 he testified to state prosecutors against his former employer heckler and koch . he was a damning indictment of colleagues and managers. that led to 2 police raids on the company premises and a mammoth investigation. in 2018 the largest trial of its kind in german post-war history finally got underway trial observers from detailed minutes. yon fun arcane was one of them. he was previously a weapons inspector for the united nations and

a member of the german parliament. i remember 3 things from the 1st day firstly the charges were read out which included conspiring to commit crimes the 2nd was that the 2 main suspects weren't in the room when one has since died and the other was heckler cox mexico representative who lives in mexico and was allegedly not well enough to travel. so his trial was separated off. with. the defendants included x e o peter by a lawyer and another former heckler and koch c.e.o. . to pass employees from the marketing to. the company had learned call itself as a codefendant and a secretary from the export department but through the other thing i remember was the initial statements given by the accused where it was totally clear they had no sense of guilt and i think they were really serious about that. the argument was

they had received approval of their exports to mexico and it was so they exported to mexico they couldn't work out why they were in court that. the end you certificate is the centerpiece of germany's arms control mechanism in this document the buyer declares where the weapons will be delivered and where they will be used ruling out that they will end up anywhere else several different ministries examine the application under the direction of the economics ministry. the government's export control office boffa then takes care of the licensing procedure. odd noida bought it off was president obama for 10 years. he's well acquainted with the procedures and knows those who worked in the economics ministry during the period in question did they not go far they said that i'd go to the us the in the satellite and call case macaulay get involved at the economics ministry and was not someone who exercised

any particularly critical judgment in that regard and. shall we say to point that. that official who was in a senior position in the economics ministry was one of the 1st witnesses to be called his testimony got off to an uncomfortable start. that's all you're looking for art form for the witness who was asked by the presiding judge to disclose what the mexico deal was all about he answered one moment and put a huge briefcase on the table guards he pulled out an entire file therefore there was mounted in the the judge asked him what he was doing he said i need to find on investigation to get the indictment they're going to start and large off by me they're going to you can see the faces of the state prosecutors turning red because that's not a lot of it is and as i saw no witness in a german criminal court case of his holding the indictment in his hands the until i

received in. but that wasn't the end of it during questioning the witness revealed that the other ministries also had access to the confidential files. but where they came from that bit he could remember is that the law he actually stated in court we call the ministry for the economy we have a special interest in ensuring that those manufacturers can survive economically that's from the man responsible for regulating urns exports for. that's true but the export guidelines state that when it comes to arms exports are economic considerations and jobs are not to play around with the kind of wants the legal position to have the court he's familiar with the next morning i glanced at it. back to the court room under further questioning by the presiding judge the official from the economics minister stated from the witness stand that human rights were more a work of endeavor. human rights as a work of endeavor. that's not with the approval guidelines set up by the

government state. run food with descendants but this question the human rights situation in the recipient country plays a prominent role of the elite almost and coming from a legal background it's clear that it's an absolute test criterion and a deal breaking criteria is clear to you. and indeed the official from the economics ministry admitted himself while testifying to the customs investigation bureau that he realized the firearms had only been excluded from parts of mexico on paper. but the economics ministry denies any wrongdoing. the ministry's main contacted heckler and koch was paid to biota he was in the dockets to god but he was acquitted on the day 2 of the trial peter birol is stated that these and you certificates are and i quote the wrong instruments owned

ineffective get our gift. this supposedly wrong instrument has for decades been the basis for all of germany's arms exports. peter by other had been the head judge at the district court before moving to heckler and koch initially he was the company's liaison officer for the authorities and then later c.e.o. throughout he was responsible for export applications and end use agreements the export control office buffer also understands that the end user agreement is a binding document the advice not wait for shooting to our understanding of the law and use it difficult is an integra part of the licensing. yet veteran legal expert peter buying up argued in court that end you certificates are not decisive for arms exports and he claim to know nothing of the real work certificate from mexico. but his correspondence with a chummy official at the economics ministry tells

a different story as i was aware of this email before it's completely clear here the economics ministry is telling heckler and koch you can't export to these mexican states but these are the ones are ok and yet in the trial all those involved maintained repeatedly that there had never been a list of positive and negative states it's absurd that this is only turned up now . but that's not all. when the approval of arms exports to mexico did not appear forthcoming by a lot e-mail colleagues suggesting they pursued what he called the political route the company made donations to the constituency offices of an influential politicians. we tried to speak to peter by a low to as he emerged from the court one day. his lawyer ditto creedon fed blocked our cameramen pulling out the sound cable.

peter biola began brandishing his priest case and his lawyer continued to attempt to obstruct us. mr dialo what do you know about the party donations about heckling cos. they were clearly not willing to talk about donations to politicians. mexico has never forgotten the missing student teachers. for more than 5 years thousands of people have been taking to the streets every month to demand answers. they include families and friends of the $43.00 students who disappeared. even travelling in the crisis torn state of gatorade always dangerous. civilian

militia groups have taken control of the roads and levy so-called customs duties. were at the mercy of the local commanders. when they spot our camera things get a bit edgy. get out had always been scarred by the drug war by violence and corruption. the good to get us family is taken care of although in this house built with donations. check. to have

a system of. listens closely. sometimes he opens his eyes we talk to him and then he closes. that we take care of family or be a little bit every day we come here and we take care of him. all day and all night we take care of him and yes the am he out and he responds to. meanwhile the trial in stuttgart was continuing. evidence was presented in the court called dozens of witnesses. then on the 20th day something completely unexpected happened. and suddenly the number was clear 15000 e-mails had slipped through that created a bit of a shock up there in the bench they realized they suddenly had a lot of documents here that hadn't been included in the proceedings at all. an investigation was launched into the missing e-mails where were they then the name

of an auditing company came up k p m g. then it turns out the customs criminal investigation office leading the investigation had received the e-mails the documents from a k p m g they had already been filtered and sorted. called in k p m g shortly after police searched headquarters. part of their task was to evaluate the steps electronic communications marcus b. was the company sales representative in mexico. had asked kay p.m.g. to carry out an internal voluntary investigation. in comprehensible to me why it's enough for the prosecutor to investigate the police and so on. p.m.g. is one of the world's 4 largest auditing companies. the internal investigation was supposed to support the customs criminal investigation office but vuitton bags the

criminal police office and the public prosecutor's office. why did the authorities agree to cooperate with k. p. and g. in the 1st place how close was their cooperation. take a p.m.g. report confirms the cooperation with the police customs investigators and the prosecutor's office. the customs investigators say they exchanged information with k.p.n. ji for 3 years. still represents mark wispy and is critical of the fact that the state investigators had agreed to cooperate with the private auditors . this is the reason i believe that we also have these so-called pawns in the dark we do not have the people actually responsible for the whole story for initiating it and i don't like those people are probably more likely to be found in departments of the federal ministry of economics the people at the top of one call

perhaps of the federal ministry. the k p m g investigation said there were significant irregularities in the stories of the secretary a marketing employee and the representative in mexico and said they were primarily responsible for the crooked arms deals there. the court in strict guard has refused to comment on the proceedings of the ruling. an answer to a written request the chicago public prosecutor's office said the cooperation with k p m g had been helpful. but it also points out the k.p.n. g.'s findings had also been compared with the information gathered by the office and critically assessed. in september 2018 accompanied by his lawyers brother leo and travel to st got for the trial. the court had already rejected the family's request to appear as joint plaintiff in the criminal proceedings. in the court's opinion the allegedly legal deliveries did

not contribute to the concrete acts of injury in question. in the courtroom they are now took 2 photos of his brother out of his backpack because as he later said aldo could not attend the trial himself. the court reacted swiftly. 9 court officers surrounded the guest from mexico until he gave them the pictures of his brother although. you know it was all about equipment up there it was all about files and stuff no one ever talked about the victims and i think it's important in this whole discussion about arms exports not only in the trial to make that clear from time to time and this is about death this is about blood this is about war and not just about sewing machines and refrigerators and that is why this is a very very special moment for me only when live in an f.

a courthouse to get the pictures of his brother back. in february 2019 the court gave its verdict. the secretary received a 17 month suspended sentence and had to perform 250 hours of community service. a former marketing employee was sentenced to 22 months on probation and had to paint 80000 euro find a social organizations. heckler and koch was fined 3700000 euros approximately the contract value of the illegally exported weapons. the other defendants including the 2 former c.e.o.'s were acquitted. both heckler and koch and peta biota have refused to give any interviews but deny any wrongdoing. by the public prosecutor's office decided not to appeal against the acquittal of bio

and the other ex c.e.o. while appealing the other rulings we are convinced said the presiding judge in its oral verdict that neither and you certificate as such nor the actual end use can be made a part of the permit in terms of administrative law but the former head of buffa the government's export control office doesn't agree. they should administratively laws is quite clear that i om part of it. if i may put it cautiously criminal lawyers who do not deal with these things so often may see things differently. and that was probably sent in the contravening and she'd been fired. 2 months after the stuttgart ruling a court in kio came to a different conclusion than the court in southern germany. at the trial of the german arms manufacturers exult for illegal arms exports and you certificates were judged to be part of the export licenses. zig-zag had sold $37000.00

pistols to colombia although the end you certificate said they were destined for the usa. ex managers of zig-zag germany and the c.e.o. of its u.s. affiliate were given fines and suspended sentences. this case is also under appeal . now germany's supreme court must decide whether to deal with the 2 rulings or not . filming in mexico city in june 21000 make a surprising discovery. the soldiers who raise the national flag in front of the presidential palace every day carry weapons from all over the world including many from heckler and cough. but a cameraman notices that the soldiers are also carrying weapons from another german company zigzag. zig-zag is the country's 2nd largest manufacturer of small arms and is based not

far from kiel in northern germany. its product range includes pistols submachine guns and assault rifles. made in germany says the company's website probably. was examined licensed to export arms to mexico. we asked the government which that no. so how did zigzag was weapons end up in mexico. the mexican defense ministry confirmed that zigzag usa sells pistols submachine guns and assault rifles to mexico with the permission of the us government. the court in kiel has already found the c.e.o. it zigzagged what usa incorporated guilty of making illegal arms deliveries to colombia via the us. the affiliate is 100 percent owned by its german parent company nuka and what my holding. under american law is exhausting usa can sell

weapons manufactured in the us abroad. but can weapons made in germany be exported to mexico via the us affiliate is this permitted. wendy done and they are intended to be delivered elsewhere the german manufactures would have to say in their occupation that the final destination is not their recipient country that affiliate is based but someone else. is well off. nevertheless there are as example weapons in mexico. in the whole summit all that it must have been by a different route one without an army to any right. about. this internet video of a mexican police officer shows as exotic p 229 pistol. the policeman says it's odd that his gun has to engravings on it. for

a made in germany. and exeter new hampshire. but how did this gun get into mexico figures from the u.s. department of commerce show how many weapons have been delivered from germany to new hampshire and from new hampshire to mexico since 2000. a document issued by the u.s. department of state makes clear the extent to which zigzag usa supplies mexico with weapons. on that list was a license for 6 hours to export up to $266000000.00 worth of firearms to mexico. up to 2024 which is an enormous amount of weaponry it's unprecedented for mexico and for the united states in terms of any exports to mexico new documents from the u.s. state department prove that zigzagged the usa not only delivers finished weapons to mexico the us permit also includes

a license to manufacture various example models in mexico including these ones some of which were originally developed and produced in germany. is that allowed. the german government has confirmed that zigzag germany has been granted a total of $26.00 permits for the transfer of technology does exult usa since 2000 . but german law requires a further license before the technology can be transferred on to mexico. but when a production license is approved it's approved for one location in this case the us where the production actually takes place and not frank sport would have to approve any further exports again. the government has confirmed that no such authorization exists. offered by hundreds of people behind such things are held accountable to any rate would be the job of the relevance of artists who as i have

said will once more have to consider whether to refer it to law enforcement of origins. is the zigs our arms manufacturing group circumventing german export regulations by relocating its business to the usa and getting away with it scot free. if it is all legal arms deals will probably soon be carried out this way . it certainly seems to be working for the exalted which has now become the largest exporter of small arms in the united states.

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