The Oral Federal Criminal Court of Concepción del Uruguay will announce the sentence next Friday in the trial for the events that occurred during “The Night of the Mimeograph”in which the kidnappings and torture suffered by a group of high school students in that city for distributing flyers against the civic-military dictatorship were investigated.
According to the president of the Court, María Emilce Rojas, from 10 o’clock the final words of the accused Jorge Alberto Rodríguez, alias El Manchado, and Luis Oscar Varela alias El Cordobésand then the sentence will be read.
On July 19, 1976, a group of students who were active in the Student Center of the Normal School and members of youth political groups from Concepción del Uruguay They were kidnapped by a task force of the Federal Police and transferred to the clandestine illegal detention center. that worked in the headquarters that this dependency had in that city.
That day César Román (complainant in the case), Darío Morán (the mimeograph with which the flyers were made), Horacio Valente, Carlos Martínez Paiva, Roque Minatta, Juan Carlos Romero and Juan Carlos Rodríguez, among others, were kidnapped. others.
During a captivity that lasted several days, the victims suffered beatings, torture with cattle prods that left them with sequels, and suffered mock executions.
Morán, Valiente and Martínez Paiva were transferred to the Coronda prison, in Santa Fe, and were released at the end of 1978, while the rest remained on “monitored liberty.”
megacauses
On the other hand, on Monday and Thursday, from 9 in Bahía Blanca, there will be new testimonials within the framework of the 8th. trial that takes place in this city, this time for the Zone V Megacause in which 38 defendants are tried for crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty, torture, homicide and crimes against sexual integrity to the detriment of 334 victims, acts perpetrated in the jurisdiction of the V Army Corps.
Also on Monday from 10 o’clock, the arguments will continue in the trial “Ramos Mejía Police Station”which has retired Army officers Rodolfo Enrique Godoy, Roberto Obdulio Godoy and Francisco Rodolfo Novotny as defendants and addresses the illegal deprivation of liberty of ten victims and the application of torture against nine of them in the clandestine detention center that operated in the 2nd Police Station of La Matanza, located at Av. de Mayo 549, in the Buenos Aires town of Ramos Mejía.
In addition, at 10 in the city of Rosario, the fourth section of the so-called Guerrieri megacausewhich investigates crimes committed in Gran Rosario, in the circuit of six clandestine detention centers that were under the operational command of the II Army Corps, and in which 17 defendants who acted to the detriment of 116 people are being tried.
On Tuesday, from 8:30 a.m., two years after its start, the testimonial hearing 86 of the trial will take place “Brigades” for crimes committed in the Pozo de Banfield, Pozo de Quilmes and “El Infierno” de Lanús clandestine detention centers and in which 16 repressors are tried for torture, homicide and concealment of minors to the detriment of 419 victims housed in these three centers.
In addition, on Tuesday, it will continue from 2:30 p.m. in San Juan, the mega trial that judges former members of the security forces and former federal prosecutor Juan Carlos Yanelloaccused of being a participant in aggravated homicide, abusive deprivation of liberty, aggravated torture, robbery and rape when he was the first instance prosecutor in the Federal Justice.
On Wednesday, from 9 o’clock before the Federal Oral Court 2 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the testimonials will continue in the trial of six defendants for crimes committed in the circuit of clandestine detention centers Atlético-Banco-Olimpo (ABO) to the detriment of 382 victims.
Also on Wednesday, from 9.30, it will continue from the trial to the former federal police officer Mario Sandovalaccused of the kidnapping and torture of the architecture student Hernán Abriata, who remains missing after being held captive in the ESMA.
On Thursday, in Jujuy and from 8:30 a.m., the arguments of the defense will continue in the sixth trial that takes place in the province in the framework of the mega-cause that contains 15 files and that this time judges 23 defendants for crimes committed in “The night of the blackout” at Ingenio Ledesma and Mina El Aguilarto the detriment of 113 victims, of which 38 are missing.
In addition, on Thursday from 1:30 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m., in Mendoza, the allegations will be resumed by the prosecution and the request for conviction for the accused, in the trial “Intelligence Detachment 144 and Air Force” that addresses the criminal responsibility of twenty defendants, mostly members of the Army and the Air Force, for crimes against humanity perpetrated against 107 victims, of which 61 were disappeared and three were executed.
On Friday, from 11 in Mar del Plata, the testimonials will continue in the trial for the Cause “La Huerta” for crimes committed to the detriment of 70 people in the cities of Tandil, Azul, Saladillo and surroundings and that has 18 defendants, among them the civilians Emilio and Julio Méndez, who were convicted in 2012, but acquitted by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
