Ayotzinapa: New evidence to be analyzed in Austria

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This week, relatives of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa and public officers met at the National Palace to analyze the progress of the investigation of their disappearance and, by the end of the meeting, Alejandro Encinas , deputy minister of Human Rights , talked about some recent discoveries.

At the same time, the officer stressed that the Thursday meeting was “ unprecedented ” in the history of Mexico and informed that on Monday, they found six remains in Cocula that were sent to the University of Innsbruck in Austria for their analysis.

In a meeting with media outside the National Palace, Encinas asserted that the so-called “ historical truth ” is being demolished, which he asserted was built based on torture and simulation.

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“They are six remains that were already sent; they were delivered on Monday to the University of Innsbruck ; three of them correspond to a finding in a canyon in Cocula ; others were found in the area known as Jesús de Nazaret in Tijerillas , near Iguala .

“And there are other findings that were obtained, in the case of Cocula , at a cave where there was contamination from guano,” he mentioned.

Alejandro Encinas said that all due identifications are being performed and stressed that the work done by elements of forensic services of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) “that in only one month demolished all the lagging in the case of the bodies the FGR had linked to events in the state of Guerrero , not only to this one but to others.”

Encinas said that the University of Innsbruck will define the date for the results of the identification of the remains.

For their part, the parents of the 43 missing students stressed that, at the meeting, they asked Alejandro Gertz Manero , head of the FGR , and Arturo Zaldívar , chief minister of Mexico’s Supreme Court , to do all they can in order to accelerate the investigations on this case and find the students.

At the first meeting attended by Arturo Zaldívar , the relatives of the missing students asked him for a single court to be in charge of the case for, currently, there are several investigation files scattered in the country and that prevents fast progress.

“Nowadays, we have many penal causes in several courts that solve them with so different criteria that the only thing they do is to hinder the access to justice for parents,” asserted Vidulfo Rosales , the legal representative of the families.

Meanwhile, they asked Gertz Manero to investigate the federal police officers , as well as those from Huitzuco , for the crime of enforced disappearance and torture , in addition to implementing penal actions against the responsible for creating torture-based investigations.

Likewise, they asked for new penal actions against those who have been and those who could be released.

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