“Much Time Has Been Lost”
The GIEI also said that for the first time it obtained several videos that were in the possession of Semar on the case. One of them shows operations by air and land that until now had not been included in the official investigations.
In one of them, alleged military personnel are seen manipulating packages that they take from two trucks to a garbage dump in the municipality of Cocula, where Mexican authorities initially said that the students were cremated and their remains thrown into a river.
(Moses Pablo/Cuartoscuro. )
Other agents are then seen lighting a fire, in the same area. The recording was dated a month after the students’ disappearance, according to the new report.
Investigators said there were more than 100 hours of videos, but they concentrated on reviewing those from September 27.
The version that they were incinerated in a huge pyre, and that the previous government called the “historical truth”, was discarded shortly after by the GIEI experts, who began to assist in the case in 2015 after several complaints of irregularities in the official investigation.
