By Anahi Rama and Lizbeth Diaz
AYOTZINAPA, Mexico (Reuters) –
Mexico’s investigation into the abduction and apparent massacre of 43
students last year is plagued with errors and omissions and key parts
may need to be redone, a review of the evidence shows.
The government’s team lost evidence, did not properly
investigate some leads and failed to provide scientific proof to back up
its account that the students were abducted and incinerated and their
remains dumped in a river, lawyers familiar with the case documents say.
The government says its investigation is thorough and
proves the students were murdered by a drug cartel in league with
corrupt local police who mistook them for members of a rival gang and
burnt them to ashes at a rural garbage dump.
But evidence of flaws in government case documents
reviewed by Reuters include how municipal and federal police and the
army knew of the students’ movements before they were abducted in the
southwestern city of Iguala last September.
That undermines the government’s assertion that local
police confused the students with members of a criminal group called Los
Rojos (The Reds), rivals of the Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors) gang
that it says murdered them.
Lawyers who have seen the government’s case file found a
host of problems and say authorities cut corners because they were in a
hurry the close the case, which drew international criticism.
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Source: Euronews
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