Interned in intensive care at the Military Hospital, in charge of a unit of the institution where the acts of torture were reported, cadet Alcides Ariel Mancuello today received Senator Tony Apuril, despite the fact that not even his family had the chance to see him.
“The patient told me that he climbed the tree to lower the eucalyptus leaves to make tea, and that no one was in charge at that time, he took advantage of a situation, he climbed, it went wrong and he fell, he told me that in private and declared that before the military instructor judge who took his statement yesterday,” Apuril said.
When asked if he did not consider that the cadet could have received threats so that his statements coincide with the version of the military, he indicated that if so, there should be some trace, bruise or clue, things that according to him, are not verified.
“According to the (military) diagnosis, it leads us to conclude that what happened was a fall and a blow from a fall,” insisted the senator.
He added that “it did not merit” that the patient be in intensive care and that he was admitted as a matter of “precaution”.
Faced with the idea of bringing in a doctor from outside the military, in order to corroborate the diagnosis issued by the same institution where the torture was reported, Apuril indicated that “a blow leaves traces and that their psychological conditions can also be seen, I saw it well, my evaluation is that his statement was as truthful as possible.
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