Another “reception party” in the Army ended in tragedy, military sources revealed to THE NATION. the cape Michael Natahel Veron, 26 years old, struggling between life and death, suffering serious injuries to your spine, after being thrown into a pool by his companions from the Monte 30 Infantry Regiment, from Apóstoles, in Misiones, and hitting himself in that fall.
The non-commissioned officer is in serious condition, military sources confided, and would undergo an operation in the next few hours. He is hospitalized in a private clinic in Posadas and an eventual transfer in a medical plane to Buenos Aires is being evaluated.
Verón’s case was recorded few weeks later of the death of second lieutenant Matias Ezequiel Chirino, 22 years old, in the Artillery Group 3, of Paso de los Libres, after a “reception party” organized in that military unit. The fact caused commotion in the military sphere and led to the suspension of 11 active officers.
On that occasion, the Defense Minister, Jorge Taiana, assured that there will be “zero tolerance” to punish those responsible for these practices.
After a first admission to the Madariaga hospital in Posadas, Petty Officer Verón would have suffered the displacement of one or several vertebrae, which seriously compromises its recovery.
Local media collect statements from the Colonel Sergio Jurczyszyn, commander of the Monte 12 Brigade, who revealed that the doctors considered an eventual transfer to Buenos Aires to be highly risky in his current condition.
Jurczyszyn pointed out that an intervention team took statements from witnesses to the event. “They are simply detailed accounts, but they have enough certainties to allow me to start with a instruction for serious disciplinary offense, and there is a presumption of a crime of abuse of authority, in which I am going to appear before the federal justice to make the complaint”, anticipated the military man.
The non-commissioned officer’s family awaited news at the door of the clinic where he is hospitalized.