Ayotzinapa: Argentine Forensic Team Goes Nose to Nose with Mexican Government's Version Marcela Turati - Proceso
go to original February 10, 2015

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) responded to criticism made by the PGR [Attorney General's Office] for contradicting its "historic truth" about the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students. In an interview,* the EAAF experts repeated that the government interprets the evidence to agree with its own version, despite the fact that interpreting evidence is more complex.

Last Saturday the EAAF declared that the PGR had errors on 20 genetic profiles of family members of the disappeared Ayotzinapa students sent to Austria to be used for DNA studies. The EAAF also stated that the PGR failed to mention that the [Cocula] Dump, where the 43 students were allegedly incinerated, has been a place of burning for four years and that it contains the body of at least one person who is not a student.

[The PGR] also collected ballistic evidence and earth samples behind the EAAF's back and left the Dump site unguarded, despite its being a "key site" for the investigation. [Moreover,] it is still not clear where the bone came from that supposedly corresponds to the identified student Alexander Mora Venancio, "among other serious difficulties" mentioned.

In its report, the EAAF had stated that rather than forcing the evidence to agree with testimonies by the alleged murderers that give sustenance to the "historic truth" of the Ayotzinapa case presented by Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam on January 27, a large amount of important physical evidence has yet to be processed and interpreted "in all its possibilities" and with "scientific rigor" before final conclusions can be drawn.

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