Those formalized were denounced by six former political prisoners from San José, who were held in the Mechanized Infantry Battalion No. 6, between 1975 and 1978.
In this sense, the former soldiers Francisco Rafael Macalusso Cancela and Rubens Darío Francia were charged with the crimes of “serious injuries, abuse of authority against detainees and deprivation of liberty”, and must serve 120 days of house arrest, reported San José Now. .
Imprescriptible
The lawyer for the Luz Ibarburu Observatory, Fiorella Garbarino, who sponsors the complainants, stated that the defense of the former soldiers based their position on the “prescription of crimes.”
“We understand that crimes against humanity are imprescriptible. The judge decreed a position that several appeal courts have, which is that the “prevented for just cause” does not have the deadline. We are talking about people who could not report these facts, because there was the Law of Expiration of the Punitive Claim of the State (1986), which was tacitly repealed by Law 18,831; therefore, in the period in which the Expiration Law was enacted until October 27, 2011, when the new law was established, the term did not run for them, because they did not have the necessary guarantees to report the crime that had been committed against them. committed”, detailed the jurist.
