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Astudillo Castro: they transferred the bone remains found and will be appraised by the EAAF

Professionals arrived in the area on Sunday morning and began work to remove the remains. From the place, Castro harshly criticized the Minister of Security of the Province, Sergio Berni, and asked for his resignation.

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) and the Forensic Medical Corps (CMF) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation were appointed by the Federal Justice as official experts to analyze the remains found half-buried in the Buenos Aires town of Villarino, within the framework of the search for Facundo Astudillo Castro, judicial sources reported tonight.

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The Public Prosecutor’s Office announced through the page Fiscales.gob.ar, that the federal judge from Bahia María Gabriela Marrón granted the request of the prosecutor 1, in charge of Santiago Ulpiano Martínez, and made official the appointment of the EAAF and the CMF to carry out the process of identifying the corpse, a diligence that will also be summoned the experts of the plaintiff party.

The expertise will be made “in order to determine the identity, the date, the cause and, if possible, the manner of the death of the human body found, as well as any other data of interest that the designated professionals deem pertinent to indicate, and may take intervention the measure referred to is those experts specializing in the matter who, for this purpose, designate the private and institutional complaints, “the sources specified.

It was also requested that the procedure be filmed, that photographic plates be taken and that the extraction of genetic samples be authorized and then sent to the Forensic Genetics Laboratory of the EAAF and another of the same characteristics for the CMF.

Meanwhile, judicial spokesmen explained to Télam that this process can take at least three weeks, as long as the samples that can be extracted for DNA production are of good quality.

In the last hours, Cristina Castro, the mother of the 22-year-old disappeared, was subjected to analysis to extract a blood sample and develop her genetic pattern, to later be compared by the DNA of the remains found.

On the other hand, Around 5:00 p.m., the four anthropologists who traveled to Bahía Blanca this Sunday to participate in the lifting of the remains found last night in a watercourse near the Buenos Aires town of General Daniel Cerri were returning to the city of Buenos Aires after completing the tasks in the place.

The specialists traveled during the early morning and this Sunday they met with the federal prosecutor Ulpiano Martínez, after which they went to the place where the body was found and began the lifting work, with the collaboration of forensics from the Federal Police.

The incorporation of the EAAF to collaborate with the investigation of the case occurred last week after a series of video calls and virtual meetings by Zoom between prosecutor Martínez, the deputy attorney general of the Institutional Violence Attorney (Procuvin) Andrés Heim and experts from that organization Luis Fondebrider -executive director and founder- and Carlos Somigliana? researcher-.

It is that their collaboration had been requested through the Federal System for the Search of Persons of the Ministry of National Security, and they were considered designated to act within the framework of the investigation.

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