The report also indicates that the findings of three of the four external expert opinions of the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office coincide in the lack of detailed reviews of the work with the last report presented by DNV, a Norwegian company hired by the city government to carry out an independent report. in order to clarify the reasons for the collapse that left 26 people dead.
The Public Ministry hired four specialists: an expert in structures and others in bridges, geotechnics and photogrammetric topography.
According to The countrythe Prosecutor’s Office carried out its analyzes independently of those carried out by DNV, however they coincide in aspects such as the absence of revisions in the structure.
Sheinbaum rejects DNV report
The head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, has reiterated the rejection of the latest DNV report which points to the lack of maintenance and revisions as causes that contributed to the collapse of Line 12.
“No maintenance inspection could have detected a design flaw. So there are a lot of problems with the third DNV report,” he said at a press conference on May 9.
With a demand for rescission of the contract against the company by the capital government, the president has accused a conflict of interest since one of the lawyers representing DNV led an electoral trial in the past against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Prosecutor rejects lack of maintenance:
This afternoon, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office rejected the version published by the Spanish newspaper and assured that the cause was defects in the construction and poor design of the work:
“The expert opinions made by this Prosecutor’s Office clearly conclude that the origin of the collapse was the serious defects in the construction and the inadequate design of the structure.
“As is done in any investigation, each and every one of the possible causes were studied and analyzed, to reach a conclusion with said opinions, which specifically indicate that maintenance is not considered as the cause that originated the failure of the structure. “, reads the statement that accompanied a media conference by spokesman Ulises Lara.
The spokesperson and the statement highlight that the information received by the media outlet was incomplete and therefore the version was biased.
“The information given to the reporter is incomplete and drawing conclusions with it is tendentious. Alluding to what is referred to in the aforementioned documentation, in fragments, without context and comprehensive information on the investigation, is biased, subjective and partial,” they highlight.
