One of the most ominous symbols of repression during the dictatorship, the former mayor of Escobar and former deputy Luis Abelardo Patti, was sentenced to life imprisonment to be met in an ordinary prison. Thus, despite its sad and long gear fame as part of genocide and as champion of the heavy-handed policing to suppress crimes, Patti was the first life sentence for the murder of a member of the Peronist Youth and the kidnapping of a former national deputy in the last military dictatorship, among other crimes against humanity committed in the context of State terrorism.
The two-time mayor of Escobar, a deputy elected prevented from taking his seat at the allegations against him and former Commissioner of the Buenos Aires police, was sentenced in particular for unlawful deprivation of liberty and primary participant in the murder of activist Peronist Youth, Gaston Goncalves, and the kidnapping of former national deputy Diego Muniz Barreto, killed after a mock accident.
Télam As reported, the Federal Court 1 also framed the crimes as "crimes against humanity" and ordered home confinement revoke existing benefits for all convicts serve their sentences in ordinary prisons, a move that provoked thunderous applause in the courtroom Hugo del Carril auditorium in the locality of José León Suárez.
The verdict was read by the President of the Court, Lucila Larrandart, who will also serve as a judge of criminal courts is, will implement the sentence of solving the transfer to prison, but will still have to define whether this will be accomplished immediately or after the penalty becomes final, it will be appealed by the defense before the National Court of Criminal Appeal.
For Patti, remains hospitalized under custody Private clinic Fleni de Escobar, after suffering a stroke, and was presented to the trial almost always on a stretcher while almost all the hearings continued from an ambulance parked at the entrance to the enclosure.
The verdict was announced after a trial which also sentenced to imprisonment of former dictator Reynaldo Bignone, the former general Santiago Omar Riveros, former army intelligence agent Martin Rodriguez, and six years in prison for ex Commissioner Escobar Juan Fernando Meneghini.
Larrandart Judges, Horacio Cassain Segretti and Lucia made public the decision before a packed auditorium where he waved pictures of victims of repression illegal, amid applause forced to stop several times to read against the backdrop of drums and shouts of joy were heard in the street, where protesting leftist groups and human rights.
The final hearing of the trial did not have the presence of Patti on the premises as the only defendant who heard the sentence in person was his former superior at the police station Escobar and sentenced for the first time, Meneghini.
were in the room
Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, a friend of kidnapped and murdered former national deputy Diego Muniz Barreto, the head of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Estela de Carlotto, and representatives of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line as Laura Bonaparte and Tati Almeida, as well as relatives of victims who act as plaintiffs in the case and is placed on the stage that acted as stand behind their lawyers, among them was Ana Oberlin, activist Children of the Rosary.
Patti was tried since September 2010 and sentenced on Thursday for the kidnapping of activists of the JP in Escobar, including Gaston Goncalves, whose murder was found for primary participant, illegal deprivation of liberty of former deputy Muniz Barreto and his secretary Juan José Fernández and the kidnapping and disappearance of young students from the area, all just materialized the coup of March 24, 1976. For judges
Patti is also convicted of "aggravated torments a victim of political persecution" in reference to Muniz Barreto and two other cases for which he was convicted, William and Luis D'Amico, disappeared.
Except in the case of former Commissioner Meneghini, convictions coincided with orders made by the tax penalty Marcelo Garcia Berro, Javier De Luca and John Murray and prosecutors Goncalvez sons, Kevin and Manuel and the children of Muniz Barreto Juana and Maria Isabel and Antonio D'Amico, all present at the hearing.
also acted as plaintiffs Human Rights Secretariat of the Nation, the Province of Buenos Aires and human rights organizations.
Source: Editorial
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