life imprisonment RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF BETHLEHEM
condemned to life imprisonment of eight former members of the Slaughter of Margarita Belén in Resistance
Monday, May 16, 2011
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The Federal Court of resistance to life imprisonment today sentenced to eight repressors and acquitted one of the defendants in the case "Margarita Belén" crimes against humanity. During delivery of the decision, relatives and friends of victims and human rights organizations led a march on the courthouse door.
The soldiers were accused of shooting to 22 political prisoners when they were transferred from the Chaco to the federal prison at Formosa, during the last military dictatorship.
In the afternoon, was read the verdict of the Court presided over by Gladys Yunes, which was condemned to life in prison Athos common Gustavo Horacio Losito, Segon Aldo Martínez, Jorge Daniel Carnero Sabol, Ricardo Guillermo Reyes, Emilio Riquelme Germain, Ernesto Jorge Simoni, Luis Alberto Patetta.
Meanwhile, former police officer Alfredo Luis Chas, considered as a secondary participant, was acquitted of guilt and position.
The former soldiers were sentenced for the crimes of murder aggravated by treachery and the number of participants, illegal deprivation of freedom aggravated by time, and forced disappearance of persons.
The incident occurred on December 13, 1976, when 22 young men and women, the Peronist majority were shot in Chaco near the town of Margarita Belén, when they were transferred to a prison in Formosa .
victims of so-called "slaughter of Margarita Belén" were: Patrick Blas Tierno, Nestor Hall, Carlos Zamudio, Luis Angel Barco, Robert Ivy, Delicia González Luis Diaz, Fernando Pierola, Raul Caire, Sergio Pereyra, Carlos Duarte, Carlos Tereszecuk, Parodi Manuel Ocampo, Luis Fransen, Ema Cabral, Reinaldo Zapata, Mario Cuevas.
Meanwhile, do not know the identities of 5 of the victims were not identified, 3 men and 2 women.
door in Federal Court, located off the Plaza 25 de Mayo Chaco capital, hundreds of people, representatives of human rights organizations, social organizations, student groups and political parties welcomed the ruling.
With audio and giant screen, watched the verdict while holding posters, flags and banners of the JP-Descamisados, MTD, ATE, CTA, JUP, PC, Barrios de Pie, and July 26 Movement, among others.
with songs and shouts of protesters cheered the ruling that convicted the accused of human rights violations.
"It's a historic decision," said plaintiff attorney Mario Télam Bosch, at the end of the hearing, while adding that it is "a failure of independent judges."
Meanwhile, the lawyer said he did not share the acquittal and said they would wait to know the basics of the verdict, the next July 12.
"condemned to be most responsible for the executions to life in common jail, without any privileges," Bosch said in a statement to Telam.
For his part, Martin, the son of one of the victims of the slaughter, Luis Diaz, said he felt "a little sense of relief" and that "justice was done."
In this sense, Daniela, the daughter of Carlos Zamudio, executed 35 years ago in Bethlehem Margarita said that "history is closed. At one point removed all your life, is terrible " said amid tears.
On the events of 1976, the prosecution told days earlier in the allegations that "past 3:30 (13 December), at least one patrol, and two army trucks left for Formosa on Route 11. Before 5 am, the convoy stopped their march up to the old road to the Calabash. "
"They shot the prisoners, the defendants used their FAL and got rid of a group to disguise the murder as an attempt to escape, the official version."
were complainants in this case, the families of the victims, the Human Rights Department of the province of Chaco and the Human Rights Secretariat of the Nation.
Margarita A few miles from Bethlehem, a memorial commemorates the victims in the same place where they were shot, with life-size sculptures representing the 22 young.
Meanwhile, in the Aula Magna of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Resistance), a large mural recalls the slaughter, a work by Amanda Major Piérola, artist of the Province of Entre Rios and Fernando's mother Piérola Gabriel, one of the youths shot, entitled "Argentina, pain and hope."
At 35 years of this crime against humanity, the families of the victims cheered, wept and hugged after the sentence, along with hundreds of people gathered outside the building of the Federal Court of Resistance.
On 12th July, will announce the foundation of the sentence that convicted eight soldiers for the slaughter of Margarita Belén and acquitted a police officer.
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