The oral trial addresses the Calle Corro Massacre, in which they were murdered Vicki Walsh, José Coronel, Alberto José Molina Benuzzi, Ignacio José Bertrán and Ismael Salameand five more members were kidnapped, including Vicki’s daughter, just one year and three months old.
The accused are six officers and non-commissioned officers: Carlos Alberto Orihuela, Ricardo Grisolía, Gustavo Antonio Montell, Guillermo César Viola, Héctor Eduardo Godoy and Danilo Antonio González Ramosformer members of the 101st Air Defense Artillery Group of the I Corps of the Army, responsible for the illegal operation in the house on 105 Canónigo Miguel Calixto del Corro Street, in Villa Luro, City of Buenos Aires.
The 6 accused come to trial, because yesterday The Court resolved that Danilo González Ramos be declared capable of defending himself in court. The former Army Captain in the 101st Artillery Group of Ciudadela was seen by conscripts shooting into Corro’s house. His defenders argued for years that he was mentally incapable. Both the experts of the Forensic Medical Corps, of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the experts of the private complaints, Adriana Taboada and Ariel Rossi, considered that he simulated in each evaluation to save himself from trial.
In this first hearing, intended mainly for the reading of the accusations and crimes that are charged and the statements made by the accused, most of whom abstained from doing so on the recommendation of their lawyers, referring to the statements contained in the case.
For the plaintiff, Dr. Lilen Reyesa member along with Myriam Bregman, Cristina Fau and Carlos Platkowski of the Center of Professionals for Human Rights, formulated two applications to the court:
First of all, the revocation of house arrest of the accused and their transfer to a federal prison. He argued that, in the case of crimes against humanity, remaining at home increases procedural risks, including obstruction of witnesses, intimidation and escape, especially given the proximity of the trial and the expectation of punishment. He cited as an example the case of Jorge Julio Lópezwhich shows the need for control measures.
In second place, holding hearings in personhighlighting its relevance for public participation, historical memory, obtaining truth and justice, and direct interaction with the court and the Public Ministry. He pointed out that virtuality limits these fundamental rights, especially in the context of the 50 years of the coup and the crimes committed in the house on Corro Street.
The session was followed virtually by more than a hundred people, among whom were family members and human rights organizations. The list alone shows the importance of this case. and the fight against impunity and repression 50 years after the military dictatorship: Association of Former Detained Disappeared; Permanent Assembly for Human Rights; Center for legal and social studies; Argentine League for the Rights of Man; CEPRODH; SIPREBA; Sisters of the Disappeared for Truth and Justice; CABA SONS; Children for Memory and Lanus Memory Table; Vesuvius and Bridge 12 Commission. Also following the hearing: Victoria Montenegro, recovered granddaughter; Alejandrina Barry, daughter of missing people; Maria Laura Bretal, former detainee who disappeared; Marta Ungaro, sister of Horacio Ungaro, who disappeared from The Night of the Pencils; Guadalupe Godoy, lawyer defending crimes against humanity; Margarita Cruz, missing former detainee; Margarita Noia of Hermanos and Secretary of Human Rights of CTA Capital and Andrea Robles, daughter of a militant murdered by Triple A, among others that we are going to name and that we will send to the court.
A central piece of information from this hearing was the Vicki Walsh murder ratingconsidered by the investigation as attempted homicide, since the reconstruction indicates that Victoria committed suicide. For the complaint, it is clearly a aggravated homicidesince she was pushed to that decision while trying to carry out the dictatorship’s genocidal practice of torturing babies to obtain information from their parents.
The second hearing was set for April 1 at 9 a.m..
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