Journalist Anabel Hernandez Releases Probe of Missing Students' Case The Associated Press
go to original December 20, 2016

Renowned Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez (New America Media)

A Mexican journalist released documents from an internal affairs investigation that criticizes the government's handling of the case of 43 missing students who prosecutors claim were incinerated by a drug gang in 2014.

The documents are from an August investigation by the internal affairs division of the Attorney General's Office.

The documents released by Anabel Hernandez say that the arrests of about a half-dozen key suspects were illegally carried out.

Some of the suspects had their rights violated, and many "spontaneously confessed" in suspiciously similar language of participating in killing the students, burning their bodies or disposing of them remains.

Those suspects gave some of the first testimony about the garbage dump and river where the students were supposedly burned, and the charred fragments of their bodies were dumped.

A DNA match between one of those fragments and one of the students, and a partial match to another, represent almost the only physical evidence of the students' fate.

The Attorney General's Office has said the documents do not represent a formal, finished investigation and lack official validity. The investigator who prepared the report has since reportedly resigned.

Read the rest at The Gazette

Related: Mexico-Ayotzinapa: NGOs Demand "Immediate Conclusion" of Attorney General's Internal Investigation of the Case (Mexico Voices)

Related: Ayotzinapa: Army, AG 'Present for All the Criminal Events' (teleSUR)

Related: Mexico Won’t Release Review of Case of Missing Students (The New York Times)

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