The Forensic Anthropology Research Group said the bodies were men between 43 and 57 years old.
He Forensic Anthropology Research Group (GIAF) confirmed last Tuesday that a sample was taken from the bone remains found on July 30 in the 14th Parachute Infantry Battalion to be sent to the Argentinawhere genetic analysis will be carried out.
The prosecutor specializing in crimes against humanity, Ricardo Perciballedetailed to the EFE Agency that the sample was taken at 12:00 and that next Monday it will be sent to Buenos Aires and from there, to Cordovato be analyzed by the Forensic Genetics Laboratory of Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) for identification.
The laboratory team will be in charge of comparing the profile of the sample with those of the genetic database of relatives of the 197 detainees who disappeared during the civil-military dictatorshipwhich occupied the period between 1973 and 1985.
The remains were found in one of the GIAF’s routine excavations, in the town of Toledo (Cannelloni), about 22 kilometers from Montevideoin the same Battalion 14 and a few meters from where the remains of the missing were found in 2011, 2012 and 2023 Julio Castro, Ricardo Blanco Brave and Amelia Sanjurjorespectively.
The prosecution confirmed that the man was between 43 and 57 years old.
According to the information provided by the GIAF coordinator, Alicia LusiardoThe latest discovery was that of a possible man, between 43 and 57 years old and 1.75 to 1.85 meters tall.
“There are several pieces of textile that make up this item of clothing, which is a shirt, and we have a pair of socks because the feet were recovered. There are no other clothes,” Lusiardo said in recent days.
The work of the Argentine laboratory is a global reference in forensic genetics and its team is highly specialized in applying genetic methodologies to identify missing persons, based on the process of highly degraded and long-standing bone samples.
Source: Ambito
