The writer and playwright Mariana Eva Pérez recounted this Friday what she felt when she saw the signature of the current judge Martín Irurzun in the habeas corpus rejection notice presented by the disappearance of his parents, Patricia Roisinblit and José Pérez Rojo, dated October 17, 1978, at which time they were still alive in the former RIBA Clandestine Detention Center in Morón during the last civic-military dictatorship.
“I have seen copies of that paper many times, what happens is that only now do I see it again in the light of what was called the ‘Irurzun doctrine’, reading that name with different eyes, the truth is that it disarmed me”, The writer expressed this Friday in dialogue with Télam after her tweet with the images of the notification card went viral and said it was “heartbreaking”.
In the image of the identity card, the signature of Irurzun can be clearly seen as secretary at that time of the Court of Instruction No. 5, a magistrate known during the government of Mauricio Macri for having “invented a new method of deprivation of liberty that became known as the ‘Irurzun Doctrine,'” Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said this week.
“Suddenly, coming across this guy’s name directly, it was a lot for me, not that it was a document that I had never seen, but noticing that for the first time disarmed me”said Perez.
I was missing a little cry and today I found the original notification card of my mother’s rejected habeas corpus. She killed me the date, 10/17/1978: they were still alive, in the RIBA. And the signature: Martín Irurzún. The firm ended up destroying me.
No costs, thank goodness! pic.twitter.com/xmCKlY0uFd– Dr. Perez (@princesamonto) July 21, 2022
Likewise, the writer said that the original document was in her grandmother’s house and that she had not seen it for a long time: “The last time it was as a result of the trial for the disappearance of her parents in 2016.”
“After six years have passed, you come across documents again, you come across names like these again and the truth is that the feeling is devastating,” he said.
On September 8, 2016, the Federal Oral Court No. 5 of San Martín sentenced the former head of the Air Force, Omar Graffigna, and the former head of the Regional Intelligence of Buenos Aires (RIBA), Luis Trillo, to 25 years in prison for consider them co-authors of the illegitimate deprivation of liberty and torture against Pérez Rojo and Roisinblit.
Francisco Gómez, appropriator of Guillermo Pérez Roisinblit, Mariana’s brother and youngest son of the couple born in captivity in the former ESMA, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
“It was a very partial justice process where many things were not judged: my own disappearance, the mediate authorship of my brother’s kidnapping, all those responsible for the RIBA site were not brought to justice, they were not investigated, they testified as witnesses in that trial and went home,” Perez denounced.
Likewise, he stated that upon meeting again with the rejection of habeas corpus “he was shocked by the date of the document, October 17, 1978, knowing that at that time my mother was alive, my father too, my brother had not been born yet, knowing how I know now that they were in the RIBA”, reflected Mariana.
He also emphasized that “only three perpetrators were convicted and only Trillo is still alive, who has just been denied home again, because he had it at the time and raped her during the trial and then they never gave it to him again,” he explained. the writer who said that she is still waiting for justice in the civil jurisdiction with a reparation case that has been going on for 15 years and has not even reached the first instance.
In this sense, the writer pointed out that “the feeling is that Justice still owes us a lot on many levels.”
“To think that just as Martín Irurzun never had to account for this and many other rejected habeas corpus, because he is surely not the only one, and that the people of the RIBA did not account for anything either, yesterday was a lot for me,” he concluded.
