After a private meeting with the president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardolegal representatives and relatives of the 43 normal students of Ayotzinapa they made known that the federal government will evaluate the possibility that the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) resume its work on the case. The proposal mainly contemplates the return of two of its most recognized members: Carlos Beristáin and Ángela Buitrago.
Isidoro Vicario Aguilar, a lawyer for a sector of the families, pointed out that the investigations are progressing “very slowly,” which is why they reiterated to the president the urgency of reinstating external specialists to supervise and accompany the investigation.
Yes ok They described the progress presented during the meeting as “limited”, The relatives assured that they concluded the meeting with a commitment from the authorities to analyze this possibility.
“The parents put it back on the table and the president’s response was that it has to be analyzed seriously, the issue of the return of the GIEI will be looked at with greater responsibility…”, Vicario explained.
He added that Sheinbaum instructed his team to establish contact with the members of the international mechanism.
“At least here there was a commitment to say, it’s okay if the issue of return, well let’s consider it, we’re going to contact them, so there was a task on the part of their secretary to try to talk to the members of the GIEI…”.
The lawyer explained that, Given the current conditions, the group’s eventual return would initially focus on two specialists.
“What has been pointed out is that it could probably be Carlos Beristáin and Ángela Buitrago because the other people who make up the team also do not know right now how they are in a position to be able to return or not, and that is what is going to be analyzed…”, he indicated.
The meeting took place in a context marked by the recent resignation of Alejandro Gertz Manero to the ownership of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR), a fact that also generated comments among family members.
Emiliano Navarrete, father of one of the missing young people, questioned the role of the former prosecutor in the investigation of the case.
“How long it took and the man did nothing; then he is a person who for me I said: how is it possible to have an attorney general, well, what is he doing if he is not solving anything…”, he expressed.
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