The Federal Oral Court 6 begins to judge this Friday 17 former members of the Federal Police accused of crimes against humanity perpetrated against 12 people during the last dictatorship, between 1976 and 1977.
Of those 12 victims, 10 were killed and two were kidnapped and remain missingreported this Thursday the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation.
The hearing is scheduled for 9 in the courts of Comodoro Py and can be followed live through the Youtube channel of the Judiciary.
The trial in which the Secretariat is a plaintiff “covers 6 illegal repressive operations carried out in the City of Buenos Aires and in the San Martín district of Buenos Aires by the task forces of the Federal Security Superintendencyalso known as Federal Coordination,” it was explained in a statement.
The organism that drives Horacio Pietragalla Corti indicated that the former police officers will be tried for their responsibility in the operations in which they they were killed Jorge Hugo Casoy, María Marta Imáz Garzón Maceda de Casoy, Bernardo Levenson, Mario Lerner, Carlos Jeifetz, Nora Salvarezza de Jeifetz, Mario Frías Pereira, Patricia Clariá Pedernera, Liliana Griffin and Oscar De Cicco and for the unlawful deprivation of liberty of Marta Graciela Treptow and Alberto Gorriniwho remain missing.
The accused
They are mostly members of the Summary and Tactical departments of the Superintendency, such as Juan Carlos Carrera, Esteban Adolfo Sanguinetti, Antonio Ángel Imbrogiano, Miguel Ángel Boiffier, Guillermo Dolz, Carlos Jorge Berón, Norberto Julio Varcasia, Rafael Oscar Romero, Osvaldo Nestor González , Daniel Pablo Amarillo, Juan Adolfo Ríos, Horacio Alfredo Ortiz, Miguel Enrique Carlos Olarte, Eduardo Norberto Comesaña, Gerardo Jorge Arráez and Germán Ricardo Rimoldi. Alberto Mattone, on the other hand, was head of Zone 1 of the Metropolitan Security Superintendence, it was specified.
Four of them have previous convictions for crimes against humanity (Comesaña, Arráez, Romero and Ortiz), while the rest “will be the first time they will have to answer for their role in State terrorism,” the Secretariat said.
“Their participation in the illegal repressive operations could be proven from summaries and documents of the War Councils that were carried out during the dictatorship in the First Corps of the Army, in charge of the jurisdiction, in which they sought to give an appearance of legality to the repressive action”, it was explained.
The Human Rights Secretariat added that “During the investigation, the contributions made by the investigation team of the National Directorate of National Legal Affairs of the Secretariat were important, which made several reports on some of the operations and the accused that allowed the accusation to be expanded”.
