Family, friends and representatives of social organizations participated this Tuesday in the Buenos Aires town of Villa Ballester in a “popular trial” in memory of Diego Duartea young recycler who disappeared on March 15, 2004 at the CEAMSE property of José León Suárez.
Within the framework of the FestiMigrants; relatives, social organizations, friends of Diego Duarte gathered at the Carnacini House Museum of Villa Ballester to carry out a popular trial where they demanded a public apology from the company, the security forces and the judiciary for cover up all these years the disappearance of the young man.
In addition to remembering “for a pedagogical purpose”, they demanded that the March 15 is declared the day of the recycler and the recycler.
Alicia Duarte, territorial representative of the Reconquista Area and Diego’s sister, highlighted: “Diego was a 15-year-old boy who had many dreams. He wanted to study. On the night of March 15, 2004, he entered the CEAMSE to look through the garbage for something to sell and with that to buy a pair of sneakers for our brother so that he could go to school.”
“After that night I didn’t see him anymore. In the blink of an eye, they killed us in life“, he pointed.
And I add: “We expect a justice that does not exist for the poor. This popular trial is the most valuable thing we take with us today. As the motto says We are all Diego. This is very pleasing, it gives me a lot of strength to move forward. I thank everyone here today for keeping my brother’s memory alive.”
For his part, Pepe Palacios, lawyer for Diego’s family, stated: “Given the absence of the institutional accusation, through the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which left those identified as authors, co-authors and responsible for Diego’s disappearance, in total impunity, the presence of this popular trial becomes fundamental because it becomes a tribute to Diego Duarte”.
The “popular court” determined that the CEAMSE, the security forces, the judiciary, and the economic power were accused.
Likewise, he claimed that “to remember is to make a school, it is to take up the banners of the struggle of Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, it is to recover the surgeon identity that has historically lived by searching through garbage.”
Also present were Delia Giovanola, founder of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Iris de Avellaneda, President of the League for the Rights of Man and Lorena Pastoriza, representative of the José León Suárez Bella Flor Recyclers Cooperative.
