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One month after Mexico City metro disaster, public demands justice

Mexico City, Jun 3 (EFE).- Thursday marked one month since Mexico City's metro disaster, which killed 26 people and injured close to 100, as victims and residents demanded justice and denounced a lack of accountability and progress in the case.The outrage is tangible around the area of the accident in the neighborhood of Tláhuac, in the east of Mexico City, where memorials built by the neighbors have turned into protests against impunity. (Camera: MIGUEL ANGEL ANDRADE).SHOT LIST: THE ACCIDENT SITE OF LINE 12 OF THE METRO AND MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE NUMBER LINE 12 METRO OVERPASS COLLAPSE AT THE SITE OF THE WRECKAGE, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO. SOUND BITES: YAZMÍN SUÁREZ, WHO LIVES 15 MINUTES FROM TEZONCO STATION; OMERO ARAIZA, WHO REPRESENTS A GROUP OF THOSE AFFECTED; AND MAGNOLIA TÉLLEZ, RESIDENT (IN SPANISH). TRANSLATION: Yazmín Suárez: There are practically no explanations. My feeling about this situation is impotence, it is sadness, that the government ignores you.Omero Araiza: It is justice for victims, punishment for the guilty, total demolition of Line 12. Because from its origins, since its construction, it has flaws in the design, it has structural damage. (The entire line) was supposed to be built underground.- There are still no expert reports, there are still no alleged perpetrators arrested, and the victims are already buried.Magnolia Téllez: When they started building it, it looked bad from the beginning because all of this is problematic (…) the tragedy that happened is unforgivable for the person who actually did this work.