see note published in http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2010/05/735088.php
The cause
The case was initiated following the complaint filed in April 2002 by Attorney Paul Felix Crous Federal, based on the evidence disclosed in the "truth trials" of La Plata. In 2003 the Attorneys General, Dulau Dumm and Molina made the request for investigation of the case entitled "Dupuy David Abel and other s / killings, torture, torment, and unlawful deprivation of liberty" . Finally, on April 7, 2009 Federal Judge Manuel Blanco rose to public trial being filed in the Federal Oral Court No. 1.
All defendants paid work under the direction of Abel Dupuy, who was in charge of the Unit prison since 13 December 1976. In addition to the Head of Unit, are charged Elizabethan Vega, Victor Rivers, Elvio Cosso, Catalino Morel, Ramon "Spotted" Fernandez, Jorge Luis Peratta, Second Andrés Basualdo, Valentin Romero, Hector Acuña, Raul Anibal Rebaynera, Juri Carlos Domingo, Enrique Leandro Luis Corsi and Sunday Favole.
After several postponements the trial began on Monday 12 April. The hearings are Monday and Tuesday from 09:00 am and is entered by presenting the ID.
Unit N 9
On September 21, 1960 was inaugurated the Unit No. 9, Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service, located on Calle 76 e / 9 and 11 of the city of La Plata. This unit features correspond to the system called "backbone" has a central corridor where the courts and, in parallel, the pavilions.
housed political prisoners since 1973 and, between 1976 and 1983, worked in coordination with Clandestine Detention Centers repressive circuit in the province of Buenos Aires known as "circuit Camps." At that time housed detainees and prisoners who were subjected to systematic plan of torture by state terrorism, as applied in this case by the Prison Service personnel under the command of Abel Bonaerense David Dupuy.
Many prisoners who came from different clandestine detention centers in the country were "laundered" to enter the Unit No. 9, ie, were made available to the Executive. However, the move to the legality does not imply the cessation of torture, torments and punishments. It was one of the units received more political prisoners, whose fate was the so-called "Halls of Death."
From the testimonies of survivors shows that while they were housed inside the prison were subjected to torture and inhumane conditions of detention. Although several inmates were released from the prison, many colleagues agree that he took note of those who had undergone a course transfer were returned to kidnap, then killed or disappeared.
Facts
The facts raised to believe are the murders of Horacio Rapaport, Juan Carlos Deghi, Angel Georgiadis, and Dardo Cabo Rufino Pirlo, the torments of death row and Alberto Marcos Ibáñez Pinto, the disappearance of William Segalli, Gonzalo Carranza Miguel Dominguez, illegal deprivation of liberty of Horacio Alejandro Micucci, John DeStefano and Amadeo Gramano and the events of December 13, 1976 when there was a requisition, on the occasion of the inauguration of Abel Dupuy as Head of the Unit, which pulled to the total of political prisoners into the courtyard and were forced to run between two rows of agents who were tortured in their way with the use of sticks and rifles among others.
The facts which can be attributed to the defendants are only a fraction of those occurring in reality and those being tried were not the only ones who participated in these events. It stressed that during the military dictatorship in Unit 9 is housed over 1500 people and is now being tried under a tenth of the crimes committed.
The trial
A clear example of this is the exclusion from the list of accused Pedro Cesar Guerrero, who had been part of the accused for crimes in Unit 9 but, having found a fugitive for a while, he was initiated a separate case. In this sense, the prosecutor requested that the case brought appended to Guerrero, which was not accepted by the Tribunal. For its part, starting the trial the defense of the accused requested the annulment of the same, and is considered as illegitimate complaint to be made by human rights organizations and NGOs. These orders were also rejected by the Court.
All the defendants refused to testify and, finally, on Monday, April 26 began to be evidence of more than 250 people in state for crimes against humanity which can be attributed to the 14 officers of the Prison Service, including three doctors.
Before the testimony of representatives of the lawsuits claimed that the Court overturn the Elizabethan house arrest Vega, Omar Elbio Cosso, Valentin Romero and Ramon Fernandez and then transferred to regular prisons. They also requested to proceed with the arrest of doctors who are on parole. The Court resolved to give rise to the first request, revoking the arrests, but not the order of arrest of doctors.
wielded The main strategy in defense of the accused is to clarify the liabilities of the defendants through a new "due obedience" by which defendants would obey orders from the Army. Likewise, the defense of the accused doctors that aims to pose the same "nothing could be done." Throughout the hearings that followed until the date on both theories have been thrown overboard by the testimony of relatives and former political prisoners who testified. Unit 9 Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service was inserted into the plan of repression applied at the time, as one link, independently but in coordination with other detention centers illegal.
The testimony began with the stirring testimony of Carlos Pinto , tortured and killed the brother of Alberto Pinto, which was followed by the testimonies of several former political prisoners who suffered repression in Unit 9. Such is the case of Julius Caesar Morgodoy Carecce , who mentioned that "every time it drizzles, the prison guard Raul Rebaynera put classical music (Beethoven and Bach) and went to` hunt ', as he said. We drew from the cells and took us to the punishment cells to beat. `If \u200b\u200bI give you 15 punches and do not shout, you turned to the cell. But you stay 15 days', I said ". With regard to doctors wielded: "Everyone was terrified because they were torturers. No doctor if he saw the situation could bancar what was happening and wondered if the rates were good and they left. Personally I did not want any medicine because it was worse ".
Thus Carlos Alberto Alvarez referred to the medical treatment received by defendants in the case, specifically on the case of Leandro Corsi: "I asked for a glass of water to take a pill, since it had stomach ailments "and at the request response Corsi was" Stop inflating the balls, making the latrine ".
On the case Pintos David Andenmatten stated that "doctors know that this person was sick and they confirmed that they could continue beating" and moreover recalled "Ortiz, who had to operate the bladder, the doctors knew why it was ".
Javier Marcelino Herrera endorsed statements he made in 2005 and have clarified seen most of the defendants on the seizure of 13 December 1976. As to the responsibility of doctors, the witness also confirmed his statement made five years ago "there was collusion between doctors and those who ordered torture. The doctors on duty were directly related to the halls. In fact, it was Favole who entered the halls " he said.
Jorge Ernesto Podolsky said outside court that the treatment received in the Unit "had assumed death. I prepared to die " . Podolsky, together with Eduardo Zavala, was one of the hardest hit in the requisition of December 13, 1976, testified about several cases of torture and said that he had been badly beaten for being Jewish. His cellmate, Fernando Ernesto Villanueva said in the same direction, also referred to the killings in this case are matters of trial. Similarly José Jozami referred to the requisition of 13 December as "a general fact, organized to show a new era founded on terror" .
also testified the former detainee missing Hilda Rochocz Ursula, sister of Gonzalo Carranza, who was held in Unit 9 and was released on February 2, 1977 in the small hours of the morning, without having notified the relatives that such release would take place. At the door of the unit was kidnapped along with Guillermo Segalli and Miguel Dominguez. Until today three remain missing.
In several cases the family was persecuted political prisoners. That was the case of Peter Niselsky , whose wife was kidnapped and killed by the military. He was abducted a day after the military coup along with forty other people to take them to the Naval Academy. "Like any worker, was a unionist who fought for better working conditions" he said. At that time, worked at the shipyard factory.
For his part, journalist and current editor of the weekly "Looks South" Eduardo Anguita said the abduction and disappearance of her mother, Matilde Rod, which occurred on July 24, 1977 at his place of work after have received a number of threats that referred to the condition of detention of his son. Anguita also testified about the killing of Dardo Cabo, Rufino Pirlo, Rapaport and Angel Horacio Georgiadis, disappearances William Segalli, Miguel Carranza Domínguez, Gonzalo, and, moreover, torture and torture perpetuated Urien Julius Caesar. He also stated that in February 1978 had been released from jail Petiggiani Jorge Roberto, who was disappeared immediately after graduating from the Unit.
Meanwhile Juan Cristóbal Mainer in his testimony testified that he was kidnapped along with his mother, his sister and her husband, and that being "laundered" in Unit 9, was visited by his two brothers Paul Joachim and Mary Magdalene. Both are missing.
also stated former political prisoners Raúl Eduardo Acquaviva ; Leal Alberto Elizalde, Jorge Taiana , current chancellor; Roberto Paez, Luis Eduardo Bloga ; Eduardo Alberto Torres, Carlos Alberto Martínez ; Julius Caesar Urien ; Horacio Alejandro Micucci ; Julio Alberto Machado, Luis Ricardo Cordoba ; Francisco Virgilio Gutierrez, current mayor of Quilmes, Eduardo Victorio Paris and Dionisio Puz.
((I)) Human Rights
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