The Salta prosecutor's office, investigating the murder of two French tourists in July 2011, is seeking to match profiles of women with DNA detected in France through sample collections. The Public Ministry has recently summoned a group of women to provide biological samples for comparative analysis. This measure will help either confirm or rule out possible laboratory contamination or advance other lines of investigation. Among those summoned were the forensic doctor who performed the autopsy, as well as operators and geneticists from the Genetic Footprints laboratory at the University of Buenos Aires, who had previously provided their profiles, as well as individuals from the circle of the convicted perpetrator and other accused persons. It was confirmed that all summoned individuals attended voluntarily, with the exception of Beatriz Yapura, the partner of Santos Clemente Vera, one of the accused. Once the samples are processed, comparisons will be made with the female genetic profile obtained by experts in France. These comparisons will not be made with the remnants of samples recently transferred from the University of Buenos Aires laboratory. To carry out these analyses, a commission is being formed that will travel to France to meet with the laboratory that obtained the genetic profile. Lastly, it has been reported that the two male profiles identified by this laboratory to date are incomplete, which prevents their comparison.
