France grants extradition for Argentine Dirty War suspect Mario Sandoval

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The Versailles Court of Appeal in France granted the extradition to Argentina of former police inspector Mario Sandoval, accused of crimes against humanity committed in the ESMA detention center during Argentina's 1976-83 dictatorship.

The extradition is pursuant to an international arrest warrant issued in 2012 by Argentine Federal Judge Sergio Torres.

Sandoval was charged with the kidnapping and the disappearance of Hernán Abriata, a 24 year-old architecture student detained at his home in Buenos Aires by Sandoval at the height of the Dirty War in 1976. He was last seen in the clandestine detention center which at the time functioned beneath the Navy Mechanical School (ESMA).

Around 5,000 detainees were tortured and killed at ESMA, the largest of some 300 detention centers during the Dirty War.

"This is another step after five years of waiting and 41 years after Abriata's disappearance," said Carlos Loza, a member of the Association of Former Disappeared Detainees and a former cellmate of Abriata's during their ESMA ordeal.

Sandoval, 64, left Argentina shortly after democracy returned in 1983 and settled in France, where he obtained citizenship in 1997.

Unlike most Dirty War fugitives, Sandoval had a relatively high-profile life in exile, obtaining degrees in public safety and economic intelligence, teaching at the Universities of La Sorbonne Nouvelle and Marne-la-Vallé, and working as a consultant to several French companies as well as for Colombian paramilitaries.

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Dirty War fugitive Mario Sandoval during his French exile, and Hernán Abriata shortly before his 1976 murder.

[Judi Lynn]

1. So good to learn Sandoval should be returning to the scene of his inhuman crimes.

Hope he enjoyed earning the rewards of his service as a consultant to Colombian paramilitaries. They also used a notorious Israeli monster as another of their consultants, Yair Klein.

These people stand in a subclass all their own, don't they?

Mind-boggling to hear he was a respected educator in France after his career as a torturer and murderer in Argentina. That really is a bitter pill to take!

Thank you for the extraordinarily good news that Sandoval is NOT actually protected from the consequences of his vicious criminality, after all, sandensea.