The Federal Oral Court (TOF) number 2 of Mendoza announces this Wednesday in San Rafael the verdict of the trial that follows six former members of the security forces accused of illegal deprivation of liberty, torture and homicide against 23 victims, eight of them disappeared, during the last civic-military dictatorship.
Starting at 9, the Court composed of María Carolina Pereira, Gretel Diamante and Alejandro Piña will hear first, in the auditorium of the Faculty of Sciences Applied to Industry of the National University of Cuyo, the last words of the defendants in the so-called “Ocampos and accumulated” case, and then, after a fourth intermission, will be given to know the verdict
At the stage of the final arguments, the deputy prosecutor, Pablo Garciarena, requested a sentence of life imprisonment for the former head of the Information Department (D2) of the San Rafael Police, Oscar Pérez; the former deputy chief of the Bodies Division, Norberto Mercado; and for the second chief of the VIII Mountain Company, Mario Ocampo.
The latter He was a fugitive from Justice between 2012 and 2019 and was arrested in the Buenos Aires town of Pilar.
In addition, the prosecutor requested the former member of the provincial police Luis Di Filippo, 15 years in prison; for the former head of the Army Intelligence section in San Rafael, Luis Ricardo Rizo Avellaneda, eight years in prison; and for former Army Lieutenant Colonel Aníbal Alberto Guevara, he requested six years in prison.
For their part, the defense attorneys Ariel Civit and Ramiro Dillon, in the framework of the final arguments, they asked for the acquittal and release of their defendantsand during the presentation one of the lawyers pointed out that “Ocampo had no decision-making power in the arrest and disappearance of Félix Órdenes, no evidence is supported.”
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? The 4th trial for crimes against humanity in San Rafael is coming to an end. This Wednesday the sentence will be read.? We spoke with prosecutor Pablo Garciarena. #earlyisbetter pic.twitter.com/faVeFxx64U
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Félix Ordenes Velázquez disappeared in 1976 while performing compulsory military service in the VIII Mountain Engineers Company, when Ocampo held a command position there.
this trial, called “Ocampos and accumulated” and that unifies three causes, began in April 2021, it is the fourth for crimes against humanity in San Rafael and the eleventh in the province; in total it has 23 victims, eight of them disappeared.
Among the missing are José Guillermo Berón, Héctor Aldo Fagetti, Francisco Tripiana, Roberto Osorio, Pascual Sandoval, Ricardo Ríos, Hugo Dardo Montenegro and the aforementioned Félix Órdenes, all of them kidnapped in 1976, the majority in the Mendoza locality of San Rafael.
