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Experts question Mexican investigation of 43 students' disappearance
Source: Associated Press
Experts question Mexican investigation of 43 students' disappearance
Associated Press in Mexico City
Sunday 8 February 2015 08.08 GMT
A team of Argentinian forensics experts is questioning Mexico’s investigation of the disappearance of 43 students, saying that the evidence does not support the government’s conclusion and that it should be allowed to investigate all theories.
The Argentine Forensic Anthropologists team, hired on behalf of the students’ parents as an independent party, issued what it said was a list of discrepancies in the case. The team had access to forensic evidence and crime scenes along with federal prosecutors and Mexico’s own forensic investigators.
Its statement said Mexico’s government presented biased analyses of the scientific evidence to support its conclusion that the youths were killed, their bodies burned to ashes in Cocula in southern Guerrero state and their remains thrown into a river to hide the evidence. So far only one of the students has been identified from charred remains found at the river.
The team “would like to reiterate that it doesn’t exclude the possibility that some of the students met the fate described by the attorney general”, the experts said in the statement issued after they met with parents. “But in our opinion there is no scientific evidence to support that in the Cocula garbage dump.”
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Associated Press in Mexico City
Sunday 8 February 2015 08.08 GMT
A team of Argentinian forensics experts is questioning Mexico’s investigation of the disappearance of 43 students, saying that the evidence does not support the government’s conclusion and that it should be allowed to investigate all theories.
The Argentine Forensic Anthropologists team, hired on behalf of the students’ parents as an independent party, issued what it said was a list of discrepancies in the case. The team had access to forensic evidence and crime scenes along with federal prosecutors and Mexico’s own forensic investigators.
Its statement said Mexico’s government presented biased analyses of the scientific evidence to support its conclusion that the youths were killed, their bodies burned to ashes in Cocula in southern Guerrero state and their remains thrown into a river to hide the evidence. So far only one of the students has been identified from charred remains found at the river.
The team “would like to reiterate that it doesn’t exclude the possibility that some of the students met the fate described by the attorney general”, the experts said in the statement issued after they met with parents. “But in our opinion there is no scientific evidence to support that in the Cocula garbage dump.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/08/experts-question-mexican-investigation-of-43-students-disappearance
