After Chamber I of the Federal Chamber ordered reopen investigation to analyze the responsibility of the group Montoneros in the attack on the canteen of the Federal Policethe Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) questioned the magistrates and stated that the resolution seeks “install the idea that the deaths caused by the organizations of the time are comparable to crimes against humanity“.
From the organization they maintained that the judges Pablo Bertuzzi, Mariano Llorens and Leopoldo Bruglia overturned the federal judge’s ruling Mary Servini though “his decision had indeed been precisely founded.” In this sense, they recalled: “The events that occurred in the dining room of the Federal Security Superintendence were declared time-barred and that decision is final“.
Montoneros: they order to reopen the case for the attack on the Federal Police dining room
In addition, the CELS, led by Paula Litvachkywhich was directed until 2020 by the journalist Horace Verbitsky (one of those dismissed in this case), accused the cameramen of ignoring that argument and indicated that the discussion in Argentina around the issue “legally settled“.
“Today we are seeing the growth of far-right political sectors that vindicate the actions of the Argentine State during the 70s. Maintain open legal channels against all jurisprudence only serves to produce what is happening right now: a wave of speeches equate to militant organizations with the state violence bloodiest of the 20th century, a wave that, moreover, feeds the discourses that justify the contemporary state hardening”, they affirmed in a statement.
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Along these lines, CELS pointed out that the action produced by the Montoneros Organization, accused of placing a explosive device which caused 24 deaths and more than 60 injured, could have been investigated at the time by criminal justice. “That was not so because the State, instead of this path, chose a clandestine method of repression and exterminationwhose consequences we all know,” they added.
Finally, they indicated that the judges collect arguments related to the right to the truth“which is effectively an international obligation of the State associated with the investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes against humanity when there is an obstacle to the imposition of a sanction. In this case, there were no inconveniences of this type: the criminal case is prescribed and the petitioners can request information from the State about the facts. They will probably face numerous obstacles because the dictatorship was in charge of hiding and destroying a lot of information“, they sentenced.
Reopening of the cause of the Massacre in the Dining Room
The court declared the decision null and void. federal judge Servini where the defendants had been acquitted, including Verbitsky y Mario Firmenich. At the time, they had also been identified as responsible Marcelo Kurlat, Laura Sofovich, Miguel Ángel Lauletta, Norberto A. Habegger and Lila Victoria Pastoriza; among other people who made up the Montoneros Organization.
In their ruling, Bertuzzi, Llorens and Bruglia considered that the hypothesis of a serious violation of human rightsif they frame as Crimes against humanity or war crimes. Meanwhile, it should also be evaluated if it initiates a truth judgment to respond to the families of the victims.
“The proposal on the possible support from foreign states and organizations that the people involved had, ”they indicated. “In order to exhaust all the possible hypotheses with which an event such as the one contained in this case can be faced, it corresponds to declare the nullity of the decision-making and return the actions to the previous instance”.
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