Overview
- Jean‑Michel Bouvier completed two days of testimony before Salta’s specialized unit, denouncing the original 2011 investigation as a judicial and police “farce” and alleging political pressure at the time.
- Salta’s prosecutor general received Bouvier after his deposition, as authorities await a date from a French tribunal to execute an international exhorto authorizing work in France.
- Prosecutors María Luján Sodero Calvet, Pablo Rodrigo Paz, Gabriel González and Daniel Espilocín, along with CIF molecular biology specialists, are slated to travel to Paris to audit French laboratories and review preserved samples.
- French forensic teams reported three unidentified DNA profiles that were not incorporated into the Salta dossier, which prosecutors now seek to reconcile with the local evidence.
- Sources said Bouvier’s testimony did not add new physical evidence, while the case currently has one convicted defendant, Gustavo Lasi, after the Supreme Court annulled Santos Clemente Vera’s sentence in 2023.