In a somber, lengthy explanation of the investigation, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam played video on Friday showing hundreds of charred fragments of bone and teeth fished from the river and its banks.
He said it will be very difficult to extract DNA to confirm identities of the victims of a horrific mass murder and incineration that lasted 14 hours.
"I know the enormous pain the information we've obtained causes the family members, a pain we all share,'' Murillo Karam said at a news conference.
"The statements and information that we have gotten unfortunately points to the murder of a large number of people in the municipality of Cocula.''
"International experts have said they can't give a time frame for when they will get results,'' he added.
Funeral pyre
Some 74 people have been detained so far in a case that prosecutors have said started when police attacked student protesters September 26 in the city of Iguala, killing six people and taking away 43 students. Murillo Karam said authorities are searching for more suspects.
In the most comprehensive accounting to date of the disappearances and the subsequent investigation, Murillo Karam showed videotaped confessions by those who allegedly killed the students and built an enormous funeral pyre of tyres, wood and fuel along the River San Juan in Cocula, a town near Iguala.
He also confirmed that human remains found in clandestine graves discovered after the students went missing did not include any of the 43 young men. Those graves held women and men believed to have been killed in August, he said.
Mexican authorities told relatives of the missing college students earlier on Friday that they had found six bags of unidentified human remains on the river bank.
Murillo Karam told families that authorities could not say yet whether the remains were of the students, but the find opened a new avenue of investigation, said Manuel Martinez, a spokesman for the families.
"The meeting with the attorney general was tense, because we don't believe them anymore,'' said Martinez, who was guardian of two of the missing young men.
The students of a rural teachers college haven't been seen since the confrontation with police in Iguala, which is 130km southwest of Mexico City.
Authorities say Iguala's mayor sent police to intercept the students, who came to town to collect money and had commandeered buses. Officers opened fire, killing six people, and prosecutors say the police then handed the 43 students over to a drug gang.
Detainees include former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pinesa, who were found hiding Tuesday in a rough Mexico City neighbourhood.
Relatives of many of the missing students have been camped at their school, the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, since the days immediately following their disappearance from Iguala.
[aljazeera.com]
8/11/14
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Drogenbanden in Mexiko gestehen: So wurden die 43 Studenten ermordet ...
ReplyDeleteEnde September wurden in Mexiko 43 Studenten entführt und an Drogenbanden übergeben. Lange fehlte jede Spur. Nun haben Verdächtige den Mord gestanden - und grausame Details verraten.
Mehr als vier Wochen nach dem Verschwinden von 43 Studenten in Südmexiko deutet laut dem Chefermittler vieles auf eine brutale Ermordung der jungen Leute hin. Verdächtige hätten gestanden, die Toten unweit einer Müllkippe im Staat Guerrero verbrannt und die sterblichen Überreste dann in einen Fluss geworfen zu haben, teilte Generalstaatsanwalt Jesús Murillo Karam mit. Er verwies dabei auf Videoaufnahmen vom grausigen Fund von sechs Säcken mit Leichenteilen. Noch sei allerdings nicht geklärt, ob die sterblichen Überreste von den Studenten stammten.
Von den 43 jungen Leuten fehlte seit einer Konfrontation zwischen Studenten und der Polizei am 26. September in der Stadt Iguala jede Spur. Die Beamten hatten angeblich auf Anordnung von Bürgermeister José Luis Abarca das Feuer auf die Studenten eröffnet und sechs von ihnen getötet. Die übrigen fielen offenbar der Drogenbande "Guerreros Unidos" in die Hände, die gemeinsam mit Bürgermeister die Stadt kontrollierte. Abaraca wurde nach wochenlanger Flucht am Dienstag gemeinsam mit seiner Frau in Mexiko-Stadt gefasst. Insgesamt wurden in dem Fall rund 74 Personen festgenommen.............http://www.n24.de/n24/Nachrichten/Panorama/d/5678628/so-wurden-die-43-studenten-ermordet.html
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The Mexican government has said that new evidence suggests that 43 missing students have been killed....
ReplyDeleteThe students, abducted by corrupt police in southwest Mexico six weeks ago, were apparently incinerated by drug gang henchmen and their remains tipped in a rubbish dump and a river.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo said three detainees, caught a week ago, admitted setting fire to a group of bodies in a dump near Iguala in the state of Guerrero.
The trainee teachers went missing in the state on 26 September after clashing with local police.
Then, the perpetrators set about removing all the evidence, Mr Murillo told a news conference.
He showed taped confessions of the detained, photographs of where remains were found and video re-enactments of how the bodies were moved.
"They didn't just burn the bodies with their clothes, they also burned the clothes of those who participated," the attorney general said.
He added that the gang members spent over 12 hours torching the remains. "They tried to erase every possible trace."
The government said police working with a local drug gang abducted the students after the clashes...........http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1108/657791-mexico-missing-students/
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Mexique : des manifestants incendient le siège régional du parti au pouvoir ...
ReplyDeleteDes manifestants ont incendié mardi le siège du parti gouvernemental dans l'Etat de Guerrero, lors d'une nouvelle manifestation après l'annonce d'un possible massacre de 43 étudiants, a constaté un journaliste de l'AFP sur place.
Cet incendie du siège du Parti révolutionnaire institutionnel (PRI) est intervenu durant une manifestation à Chilpancingo, capitale de l'Etat du Guerrero (sud), d'un millier d'enseignants appartenant à l'aile radicale de leur syndicat, armés de pierres, de bâtons et de cocktails molotov.
http://www.rtl.be/info/monde/international/1140843/mexique-des-manifestants-incendient-le-siege-regional-du-parti-au-pouvoir
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