“I can understand those people who immediately thought about the worst case, because the cause of what happened was an unsuccessful combination of a whole series of mistakes,” he said in an interview with the Associated Press.
According to Barr, an investigation by the FBI and the inspector general of the US Department of Justice convinced him that Epstein had committed suicide.
At the same time, he emphasized that the administration of the prison where the accused was kept made a number of mistakes, including the decision on his solitary confinement in a cell.
“I think it was important to place him with a cellmate. We will study the question of why this was not done, I think everything indicates that mistakes were made, ”the US Attorney General added.
Epstein died in an American prison on August 10.
The FBI has launched an investigation into the circumstances of his death.