The Argentine Ministry of Justice and Human Rights informed the family of Hector Orlando Giordano Cortazzo that coincidences were found between a fingerprint record of a body found in the street in 1978 and the detainee disappeared.
Giordano disappeared in 1978 in the area of El Palomar (Buenos Aires), the same place where several bodies were found. The family was found out and now DNA will be matched with unidentified bodies from a Buenos Aires cemetery, reported La Diaria and confirmed to The Observer Jimena Fernández, member of the Board of Directors of the National Human Rights Institution (Inddhh).
“They [en referencia al ministerio argentino] they take for granted the information that the dead man who appeared there was him, based on the fingerprints that were taken,” Hugo, Giordano’s brother, told La Diaria. According to the information accessed by the family, the body was deposited unidentified in a cemetery in Buenos Aires.
On the night of June 9, 1978, Giordano was kidnapped at home by people dressed in civilian clothes and with weapons who were traveling in several vehicles without license plates. From the testimonies of neighbors who were witnesses, it is known that they take him injuredreported Sites of Memory Uruguay.
Giordano was born on May 13, 1939; he was a lawyer and journalist.
