Foreign Forensic Experts Slam Mexico's Probe Into Missing Students Deutsche Welle
go to original February 8, 2015

A forensic examiner looks for human remains outside Cocula, Mexico. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which includes experts from 30 countries, issued a 16-page statement on Saturday in which it strongly criticized the conclusions reached by the Mexican Attorney General's office as to what happened to the students, who disappeared in September.

The findings of the team, hired as an independent party on behalf of the students' parents, come after Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam last month told a press conference that he had the "legal certainty" that the students were murdered in the southern state of Guerrero.

..In its statement, the Argentine-led team said it did "not exclude the possibility that some of the students met the demise" described by Murilo Karam.

"However, in our opinion, there is no scientific evidence to that effect at the Cocula landfill," the statement said.

Among other things, the team said it had found human remains at the dump that did not belong to the students, including a tooth belonging to a set of dentures - even though none of the students wore false teeth.

It also noted that it had found anomalies in 20 genetic profiles collected from family members of the 43 students, which made them unsuitable for use in DNA matches.

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