(CNN Spanish) - The Mexican Attorney General's Office confirmed Tuesday that the remains of Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, one of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students, were identified.
At a press conference, the head of the Unit for the Ayotzinapa case of the Prosecutor's Office, Omar Gómez Trejo, said: “On June 19, 2020, the University of Innsbruck communicated to the Unit in my charge and to the Argentine Team that, after carry out the respective analyzes on the bone pieces sent, one of them corresponds to the student Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, one of the young normalistas who disappeared on September 26, 2014 ″.
“For greater certainty, the results of Innsbruck were also analyzed by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which completed its review on July 4, concluding that one of the bone pieces sent to the Innsbruck Laboratory belongs to the normalistic student Christian Alfonso. Rodríguez Telumbre, undoubtedly, corresponding to a lower limb, ”said Gómez Trejo.
The 43 students at a school for teachers in the town of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, disappeared on September 26, 2014. According to the Mexican authorities, the students were going to demonstrate when they were attacked by corrupt police officers - associated with a group of drug traffickers— then executed, their bodies cremated in a garbage dump and the remains thrown into a river.
But this version of the Mexican government - which was called the "historical truth" by the Attorney General's Office - was discredited, when an independent group of forensic experts hired by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) determined that the students could not have been cremated. in the Cocula dump.
In early December 2015, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) investigating the Ayotzinapa case once again questioned the official version of the facts given by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), assuring that no Cocula dump fire.
Parents have not stopped looking for their children and have not stopped protesting throughout Mexico. They say they will continue to protest until one of two things happens: that they are found alive or that it is scientifically proven that they were killed.
In March 2020, the representatives of the Executive Power, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and the Attorney General of Mexico signed an agreement in which they commit to work to clarify the disappearance of the 43 students of the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa .
For almost six years, the parents of the missing students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School have been demanding answers about their whereabouts: only a small part of the more than 40,000 registered people who have disappeared in Mexico, according to the Mexican government. No one has been convicted in connection with his disappearance.
With information from Marlon Sorto, Daniel Silva and Mario Medrano
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