Workers and union delegates of the 70s of the Commission for the Memory of Campo de Mayo attended this Wednesday, along with human rights organizationsto Federal Court of Appeals of Saint Martin to present a request to revoke the acquittal of former Mercedes Benz manager Juan Ronaldo Tasselkraut, accused of handing over employees and union representatives of that company during the last civic-military dictatorship.
“We are here because it is 40 years of injusticewe have plenty of evidence and thousands of things to say about what these people did. Tasselkraut was a production manager, he was always at the board meetings, as was the head of personnel or the person in charge of finances, he had and passed on information about the disappeared detained colleagues,” The former union delegate and member of the Association of former Workers and Relatives of the Disappeared of Mercedes Benz Argentina told Télam Hugo Crosato.
Starting at 11 o’clock this Wednesday, the delegation of workers and delegates from the ’70s, accompanied by the president of the Association of Survivors, relatives and colleagues from Campo de Mayo, Iris Avellaneda and documentary filmmaker Aldo Getino, waited at the doors of the court for news on the presentation made by the lawyer Pablo Llonto and the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) as the plaintiff in the case.
Around 3:00 p.m., after a hearing with Tasselkraut’s lawyers, Llonto informed the press that It remains to wait for the decision of the judges on whether Tasselkraut’s dismissal sentence is finalized or if they revoke it and call him for questioning.
“This Chamber will give joy to Tasselkraut or joy to us. Joy that will not be final until this long road of appeals that unfortunately we still have is over, obviously because of what happened in the court of (Alicia) Vence al dictate the dismissal,” said Llonto.
The federal judge of San Martín, Alicia Vence, dismissed last April 21 Tasselkraut, accused in the Campo de Mayo Megacause for “there is no evidence of his role” in the kidnapping of 7 workers of the car plant located at kilometer 43.5 of route 3 in the town of Virrey del Pino (La Matanza) during the last dictatorship.
Two weeks before the dismissal, Tasselkraut had submitted a written statement, without appearing in person before Judge Vence, who is in charge of the case and It took seven years to call him in for questioning.
in writing businessman had declared himself “absolutely oblivious” to the facts that were imputed to him, arguing that “lacked decision-making capacity” for “not being part of the company’s board of directors” and for carrying out “completely technical” work.
The former manager of Mercedes Benz was accused of having handed over personnel from the company, in which 17 workers were kidnapped, of which 14 remain missing.
Yes ok there was already a trial against those who carried out the kidnappings and disappearancesthere are still no responsible part of the company.
