Tag: Salta

• Thursday, August 11th 2011 - 23:28 UTC

  Two weapons used in the killing of French tourists in northern Argentina

  

  Ballistic forensic reports in the case investigating the murder of two French tourists in the Argentine northern province of Salta, determined that at least two firearms were involved in the killings, sources indicated on Thursday.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 17:59 UTC

  Argentine police confirms gun confiscated was used to kill French tourists

  

  The Argentine Police investigating the double-murder case of the French tourists in Salta confirmed Wednesday that the gun confiscated last Saturday from the six people arrested in connection with the crime, was the weapon used to kill the young French women, a Salta court spokesperson said.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2011 - 07:18 UTC

  Murdered French women suspects’ genetic samples sent to Buenos Aires for DNA testing

  

  Genetic samples extracted from the six suspects arrested in connection to the murder of two French tourists in the northern Argentina province of Salta were submitted Tuesday to the Biochemistry School at the University of Buenos Aires.

• Monday, August 8th 2011 - 04:03 UTC

  Sarkozy thanks CFK for the investigation of the murder of two French tourists

  

  French President Nicolas Sarkozy called President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, CFK, on Sunday in order to “personally thank her for the outstanding job” carried out by local authorities in the investigation of the murder of two French tourists in Salta.

• Friday, August 5th 2011 - 18:35 UTC

  France opens court investigation into killing of two students in Argentina

  

  A court investigation over the “kidnapping, rape and murders,” of the two French women killed in Salta, northern Argentina was opened Friday in Paris, French court sources informed.

• Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 22:57 UTC

  French students’ killed in Argentina: claims of suspects beaten by police

  

  The family members of the French tourists who were murdered in Salta, north of Argentina were taken to the scene where the bodies were found to walk across the area, accompanied by the judge in charge of the case.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 22:28 UTC

  Is Argentina a safe country for tourists?, questions the French media

  

  Following the killing of two French young women tourist-packers in the northern Argentine province of Salta, --with criminals still at large--, the issue of security, safety and crime in Argentina has been widely exposed in the European and Unite States media, particularly the so-called ‘express kidnapping”.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 22:26 UTC

  A man arrested in connection to the weapon used in the double murder in Salta

  

  A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the double murder case in Salta, where two French tourists were killed in the area of la Quebrada San Lorenzo last Friday, a Salta official informed.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 - 07:10 UTC

  Timerman ‘appalled’ by ‘heinous’ killing of French tourists in north Argentina

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman sent a letter to his French counterpart, Alain Juppé, in which he expressed being “appalled” over the killing of two French tourists in the Salta province.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 20:30 UTC

  French women killed in Argentina described as brilliant students in Latam affairs

  

  Argentine police detained for questioning a local horse renter in relation to the brutal murder of two French tourists – Moumni Hour and Cassandre Bouvier – found dead with gunshot wounds on Friday at a hiking trail in Quebrada de San Lorenzo, Salta province, 1600 Km northwest of Buenos Aires.