The movement Free-Standing Neighborhoods of the South and the Worker Pole they will mobilize this Tuesday at 11 to accompany the relatives of the social activists Dario Santillan Y Maximiliano Kosteki, murdered by the Buenos Aires Police in 2002 after a protest, in what became known as the Avellaneda Massacre.
“Almost 20 years after the murder of Darío (Santillán) and Maxi (Kosteki), Barrios de Pie/Libres del Sur will accompany their relatives in the act of the ‘Darío y Maxi’ station (former Avellaneda station), rejecting parole of (Alfredo) Fanchiotti and (Alejandro) Acosta”, accused of being responsible for the deaths of the two MTD militants Aníbal Verón.
This was reported to Télam by Silvia Saravia, national coordinator of Barrios de Pie-Libres del Sur.
“The Avellaneda massacre was a state crime, with political actors and perpetrators in the Police. For this horrendous crime, at first they wanted to blame social organizations. The photographic evidence of Pepe Mateos had to appear for Fanchiotti and Acosta to be convicted,” Saravia reviewed.
For the social leader, “almost twenty years ago that fateful episode, but for social organizations it was yesterday. The memory of Darío and Maxi keeps alive the commitment with which we open our dining rooms and picnic areas every day. Under no circumstances are we going to allow the parole of their murderers. In a country where impunity is often the rule, we will make memory count”.
This Tuesday, two months after the twenty years of the murders of Kosteki and Santillán During the protest on June 26, 2002 inside the Avellaneda station, today called “Darío and Maxi”, relatives, friends, lawyers, left-wing parties, human rights organizations and piquetero organizations denounced that “they want to free the former police murderers who were sentenced to life imprisonment”.
They will do so during a planned mobilization, concentration and march starting at 11, in the same place where the massacre took place.
At the same time, the plaintiffs’ lawyers for the dead and wounded militants will demand before the Criminal Enforcement Court No. 3 of Lomas de Zamora “to be notified and taken into account” in the incident that was opened by the request for parole, requested in recent days by the defenses of former Commissioner Alfredo Fanchiotti and former Corporal Alejandro Acosta.
For its part, from the Polo Obrero they announced that they will hold a press conference at noon at the “Darío y Maxi” train station on the Roca line, together with family, colleagues and friends.
There, they will present the complaint against the request for the release of the two Buenos Aires police officers, “a necessary link in the formation of the repressive operation of June 26, 2002 in the city of Avellaneda, orchestrated and organized from the most high spheres of the national government and of the province of Buenos Aires”, communicated from the organization.
“On the occasion, the criminal operation coordinated three national security forces, Gendarmerie, Prefecture and Federal Police, with the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires, commanded by the former Secretary of State Intelligence (SIDE),” they detailed.
