Susana was found in her house in the Ampliación Poeta Lugones neighborhood in the capital of Córdoba with signs of having been hit on the head. Her husband Fermín Albareda was a member of the Córdoba police and was kidnapped in 1979 and has remained missing since then. Fernando, her son, had denounced the constant arrival of threats. “The threats that used to arrive before were always received by me, little notes in the car, notes under the door, calls to my phone. I even responded to the calls from time to time with curses,” he had said last December when a stronger threat arrived that included six .22 caliber bullets left at the door of the home.
Fernando Albareda is an employee of the National Secretariat for Human Rights and until last year was in charge of giving training to police officers in training on respect for Human Rights. The threats of last December were precisely the focus of his visits to the Police Headquarters.
His father, who while he was deputy commissioner was a member of the PRT-ERP, was kidnapped by a police gang (known as the D2) and taken to the Hydraulics department, near the San Roque Dam, where he was brutally tortured and bled to death. Fermin’s case is documented in the book La Sombra Azul by Mariano Saravia. For this case, Luciano Benjamín Menéndez and the police members of the D2, Rodolfo Campos, Armando Cejas and Hugo Britos, were sentenced to life imprisonment. Albareda’s case is the only one recognized by the force itself as “a crime against humanity.”
From the PTS Córdoba we have communicated with the human rights organizations of the province, transmitting our support to Fernando, his family and colleagues, making ourselves available for the actions and steps to follow to clarify this very serious event, demanding justice for Susana.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
