The Oral Federal Criminal Court (TOF) 6 will judge former frigate captain Adolfo Miguel Donda Tigel from this Monday for her participation in the illegal appropriation of her niece, Victoria Donda Pérez, after the birth of the current Inadi controller in the clandestine detention center that operated in the former Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) during the last military dictatorship.
“Looking him in the eye and being able to tell him head-on that his surname Donda is going to be well known for having a niece who fights for the same flags that he wanted to bury is one of the worst sentences he can have,” Victoria Donda confided to Télam.
TOF 6 made up of Ricardo Baslico, María Gabriela López Iñiguez and Daniel Horacio Obligado will determine the responsibility of ex-marine Adolfo Miguel Donda Tigel in the illegal appropriation of his niece, Victoria Donda.
Victoria is the daughter of the repressor’s younger brother, José María Laureano Donda, and María Hilda Pérez, both of whom disappeared in 1977..
“I felt that the judiciary had not understood the cry of society when in 2017 they wanted to benefit the genocide with the 2×1”
José María Laureano Donda was last seen at the 3rd Police Station in Castelar with his wife, who, being pregnant, was transferred to the former ESMA, where she gave birth to Victoria.
In that clandestine center, Adolfo Donda was one of the intelligence officers of the Navy’s task group 3.3.2.
“I’m sure he gave up his brother because he couldn’t not know his fate”affirmed the official, alluding to the high command that Adolfo Donda had within the repressive apparatus.
On the other hand, he announced that part of the witnesses reported that the repressor “was present at the torture sessions of my pregnant mother when she was at term.”
Along these lines, he maintained that “it is almost unbelievable to me to think that he did not know that I had been born alive and what my whereabouts were.”
In October, Chamber II of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, made up of judges Carlos Mahiques, Ángela Ledesma and Guillermo Yacobucci, granted the convicted in other cases of crimes against humanity, temporary releases, which generated the rejection of survivors of the former ESMA and of the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation.
Adolfo Donda already had two previous life sentences, one in the trial known as ESMA II (2011) and another in the process known as ESMA III (2017), which the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation has yet to review.
However, the judges of the Second Chamber of Cassation highlighted that Adolfo Donda complied with all the legal requirements to access temporary exits and that he had positive reports on his conduct, issued by different areas of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
The same request had previously been rejected by the Federal Oral Court (TOF) 5 because psychological reports revealed that the repressor “maintains the denial of his responsibility in the facts proven by the ruling that is executed, which shows that no reflection on the attributed criminal acts has been effectively deployed”.
“I felt that the judiciary had not understood the cry of society when in 2017 they wanted to benefit the genocidal with the 2×1”, said the Inadi intervener about the permission granted to Adolfo Donda.
In addition, he pointed against the judicial system that he considered “co-opted by a part of the power factors that are the same ones that instigated the coup.”
“Looking him in the eye and being able to tell him head-on that his surname Donda is going to be well known for having a niece who fights for the same flags that he wanted to bury is one of the worst convictions he can have”Victoria Donda
In this way, he exhorted the judges to have a perspective that includes “human rights as progressive” and to consider “crimes against humanity as the most horrible that a human being can commit.”
The trial carried out by TOF 6 is the second process carried out for the appropriation of the former deputy, since the prefect Juan Antonio Azic -also a member of the task force in the former ESMA- was sentenced in 2012 to 14 and a half years in prison for the theft and suppression of the identity of Victoria Donda, whom he registered as his own daughter under the name of Claudia Analía Azic.
In 2004, when Victoria did the immunogenetic studies and learned her identity, she learned that she had a biological sister named Daniela Donda.
At once, Azic had also stolen the identity of the granddaughter Carla Ruiz Dameri, with whom Victoria Donda grew up.
“For me they are my sisters, one is my older sister with whom I am building a bond, because it is very recent, and the other is my lifelong little sister, she is the person I know best, who knows me best, with the that I shared everything,” said the official and former national deputy.
Donda explained that in the cases of restitution of people who are already adults “relationships are built and are not linear” and highlighted the bond she has with two aunts “who are cousins of my father and Adolfo.”
“I have no relationship with the rest of the paternal family. With Adolfo I have no type of link,” he assured and stressed that the ex-marine’s wife is part of the group Memoria Competa, of which Cecilia Pando, a well-known activist, is a reference. of the denial of the crimes committed by State terrorism.
Donda confided in Télam that in the trial to be held it will be the first time that she meets her father’s brother in person..
Lastly, he pointed out “the negationist discourse that is being heard again” and said that it is “the usual reactionary sectors that hide behind supposed notions of freedom.”
Along these lines, he continued: “They use freedom to defend the privilege of a few.”
In this way, he urged “to continue keeping the Memory alive” in order to be able to “build justice processes in each of our peoples”, so that “the horrors we are experiencing do not happen again”.
