The Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla Corti, criminally denounced the ex-military Aldo Rico “for crimes against the constitutional order” as a result of the call to the military launched publicly by the former carapintada in the face of the social situation and affirmed that in this way he seeks to defend “democracy, ensure the ‘Never Again'” and “make the postulates of Memory, Truth and Justice a reality.”
Pietragalla Corti explained that he filed the complaint with the Justice “in compliance with the indeclinable duty to carry out concrete and effective actions in order to guarantee the validity of the National Constitution, the unrestricted defense of democracy, to ensure Never Again” and to make the postulates of Memory, Truth and Justice”.
“Almost 40 years after the return of democracy, and after more than 20 years of restarting trials for crimes against humanity during the last dictatorship, these types of actions, which seek to destabilize democracy, cannot be tolerated,” the Secretariat said in a statement.
In addition, he stressed that “unrestricted compliance with human rights is the backbone of democratic construction.”
According to that agency, the federal Justifica was requested to investigate Rico “before the possible commission of the crime of public and suitable threat against the democratically elected authorities”, which are typified in article 226 bis of the Penal Code.
In the arguments of the complaint, it is argued that the former Army lieutenant colonel “has political, military and police contacts and previous experience in the organization and execution of two military uprisings” against the democratic system, and the uprisings are recalled. carapintadas of 1987 and 1988 against the government of former president Raúl Alfonsín.
In a video broadcast yesterday on social networks, Rico summoned the military in what he considered “a meeting call before the crisis and before the battle, as is customary in our Armed Forces.” “Comrades, when the Homeland is in danger, everything is lawful, except letting it disappear,” said the former soldier, and predicted that “the circumstances of violence are going to deepen.”
For CELS “it is impossible to separate” Rico’s statements from the 1987 Holy Week military uprising
The Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) repudiated Aldo Rico for his public summons to the military in order to organize “against democracy”, and considered that “it is impossible to separate” his statements from the 1987 Easter uprising against the government of Raúl Alfonsín.
“It is impossible to separate his statements from what happened during Holy Week in 1987, when he led an attempted coup against the Alfonsín government, which led to the enactment of the Due Obedience and Full Stop laws,” CELS said in a statement. his official Twitter social network account.
In this way, the agency considered the excarapintada’s statements as “threats” that “claim attacks against democracy and the constitutional order,” and warned of “the consequences” that these types of actions have “for the validity of human rights.” .
CELS recalled the video in which the former colonel “with a revisionist speech typical of the dictatorship” summoned retired officers to “defend the Homeland” as occurred in “the fight against subversion.”
Rico broadcast in a video that he released on social networks a message in which he summoned the military in what he considered “a meeting call before the crisis and before the battle, as is customary in our Armed Forces.”
“Comrades, when the Homeland is in danger, everything is lawful, except letting it disappear,” said the ex-military man, predicting that “the circumstances of violence are going to deepen.”
