Former Army Capt., 3 police officers handed down life sentences for crimes during Argentina's last d
Former Army Capt., 3 police officers handed down life sentences for crimes during Argentina's last dictatorship
Friday, July 30th 2021 - 08:21 UTC
A federal court in the Argentine city of Rosario Thursday handed down life in jail sentence to each of the four defendants in the Klotzman case of human rights violations and murder during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
A former Army Intelligence captain and four former federal police officers were sentenced to life imprisonment by Rosario's Oral Federal Court 2 (TOF2) for crimes against 27 militants of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP).
Retired Army Captain Jorge Alberto Fariña and the former police officers Federico Almeder, Juan Langlois and Enrique Andrés López, were found guilty of “aggravated homicide, aggravated unlawful deprivation of liberty, aggravated torture, suppression of identity, abduction, retention and concealment of a minor under 10 years of age and illicit association.”
Upon hearing the ruling, Patricia Maciel, daughter of Mimí Inchaurraga and Rolando “Pirulo” Maciel, both kidnapped on August 8, 1976, said: “I am very satisfied with the sentence because it was what we expected with the importance of also involving the other forces that we already knew were operating but had not been tried, such as the Federal Police and the Provincial Police.”
She added that “in my case, my parents were disappeared, tortured and later shot and I have been waiting for this for 45 years,” she emphasized.
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Google translation:
Life imprisonment against Jorge Alberto Fariña for "the Klotzman cause"
The Federal Oral Court 2 of the city of Rosario, Argentina, sentenced this Thursday, July 29, 2021, to life imprisonment, the former member of the Army Intelligence Detachment 121, Jorge Alberto Fariña , and the former police officers Federico Almeder , René Juan Langlois and Enrique Andrés López for crimes against humanity committed against thirty people during the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983).
All of them were convicted of the crimes of unlawful deprivation of liberty aggravated by violence and threats, application of aggravated torture because the victims were politically persecuted, and homicide aggravated by treachery. In the case of Fariña , he was also convicted of abduction and suppression and alteration of the identity of a girl . The court considered that all these crimes constitute crimes against humanity and that, therefore, they have not prescribed.
In this judicial case, called the Klotzman Cause , events that occurred in 1976 were investigated to the detriment of members of the PRT-ERP - a guerilla split from the Revolutionary Workers Party - who mostly passed through the clandestine detention center known as Fifth Operational of Fisherton , in the city of Rosario.
The case included the case of illegal appropriation of the daughter of Cecilia Beatriz Barral and Ricardo Horacio Klotzman , kidnapped on August 2, 1976 from their home in Rosario. At the time of her abduction, Barral was nine months pregnant. From the testimony of a survivor, it was learned that the couple were detained at the Fisherton clandestine center.
As stated in a statement by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo , plaintiffs in this case, the little newborn was separated from her mother, transferred and delivered on August 21, 1976 to a family in the city of Santa Fe, " thus erasing all information about his identity «. In 2011, thanks to comparative studies in the National Genetic Data Bank of a young woman who could be the daughter of disappeared militants, he was able to determine that she was the daughter of Barral and Klotzman .
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Google translation:
Klotzman case: life imprisonment for the repressor Fariña and three former Federal police de Fisherton and the abduction of who turned out to be the recovered granddaughter 103
Relatives of victims and militants were present outside the Federal Courts of Rosario.
Photo: Silvina Salinas / La Capital
Thursday, July 29, 2021
The Federal Justice of Rosario sentenced the repressor Jorge Fariña to life imprisonment as co-perpetrator criminally responsible for unlawful deprivation of liberty, violence and threats, aggravated in a real contest with torture applied for being the victims politically persecuted, in addition to homicide aggravated by treachery. The sentence was produced within the framework of the so-called Klotzman case , for crimes committed to the detriment of 29 victims in the clandestine detention center called "Quinta de Fisherton" , during the last military dictatorship.
The same punishment received the three former Federal Police officers Federico Almeder, Juan Enrique Langlois, in this case a necessary participant, and Enrique Andrés López, as co-perpetrators criminally responsible for unlawful deprivation of liberty aggravated by violence and threats, aggravated in a real contest by application of torture qualified for being victims of political persecution.
In addition, Fariña was considered "co-author criminally responsible for the abduction of a child under 10 years old , qualifying it as a crime against humanity " to the detriment of María Pía Josefina Kertz, biological daughter of Cecilia Beatriz Barral (she gave birth in captivity) and Ricardo Horacio Klotzman, who was given to a Santa Fe family back then and later turned out to be the 103rd recovered granddaughter in 2011.
The sentence of life imprisonment exceeded the expectations of the complaint, since the Abuelas Rosario litigation team had requested for Fariña, a former member of the Army Intelligence Detachment No. 121, "the penalty of 15 years in prison and absolute disqualification" and that it be carried out "in a common prison" , like so many other repressors. Abuelas's lawyer, Sofia Barro Fosin, had reconstructed how Cecilia and Ricardo were kidnapped from their home on Monday, August 2, 1976 and "they were taken away, her with a full-term pregnancy . "
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Regarding the police officers Almeder, Langlois and Andrés López, the prosecutor Villate indicated that they were, at the date of the events, agents of the Federal Police who were carrying out functions in Rosario.
In that sense, the prosecutor remarked that they participated in what was called the "technical office" , whose function was to collect information and that the so-called "anti-subversive brigade" also functioned within this office .
He explained that the tasks in which the Federal Police participated were organized under the direction of the head of the delegation (Juan Dib, who was charged but died last year) in coordination with the highest authorities of the Army Intelligence Detachment 121, among whom were He found Fariña himself, and that he had among his resources personnel from the security ladder, including Almeder and López, and members of the Information Corps. This department centralized intelligence activities in that security force, in this specific case, in the person of Langlois.
In this way, Villatte explained how they acted in the self-styled "Joint Operations" , criminal acts perpetrated by this task force, made up of both members of Intelligence Detachment 121 and members of the Rosario Delegation of the Argentine Federal Police, who, more Beyond the division of functions, they acted in relation to the kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearance of people.
https://www.lacapital.com.ar/politica/causa-klotzman-prision-perpetua-el-represor-farina-y-tres-ex-policias-la-federal-n2677430.html