Weekend the news shocked Córdoba and the country’s wide network of survivors, relatives, organizations and human rights activists. On Friday afternoon, the body of Susana Montoya74 years old, was found in her home in the Ampliación Poeta Lugones neighborhood of the capital of Córdoba. She had signs of having been hit on the head.
Fernando Alvaredahis son, is the one who found the body and notified 911. In the last hours the militant of the group H.I.J.O.S. and official of the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Nation, told several media that on Thursday afternoon he had taken his mother in the car to a doctor’s office where she had a medical appointment. There he left her and for the rest of the day they did not communicate again. That on Friday morning he called her and sent her several messages, but she did not respond. So after work he went home.
The woman’s son claims that as soon as he arrived home he felt that something weird “The windows and blinds were closed, which was not normal for her because she always had them open to let the sun in,” she says. She adds that when she heard the sounds of the television and a radio from outside, she began to feel anxious. Since she didn’t want to force the door, she asked a neighbor to let her go up to the roof. From there, she says, He saw the body lying in the yard.
“I immediately called 911 and when I entered the house I found the message on the wall stuck to the entrance door to my mother’s room, written with something resembling lipstick.” There it read “We are going to kill them all, now we are going for your children #LaPolicia”.
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Alvareda He added that on the same block where the crime occurred There were police personnel of consignment devoted to another judicial case, with permanent presence. And he said that if those policemen “did not see anything, did not identify anyone who had climbed a wall or run away, nor did they hear noises, well, we are facing a liberated zone or something strange.” According to him, no doors or windows were forced (only the gate that faces the street was open), which gives further support to his speculations.
Alvareda He ruled out the possibility that it was an attempted robbery. “This has to do directly with a retaliation to my familyThey have not stopped me chase me y dawn on me“He says. And he gives the initial date of these attacks as December 2009, after the end of the trial for the disappearance of his father, in which for the first time Members of the Information Department 2 of the Córdoba Police were sentencedUntil 2012, he said, he had permanent custody of plainclothes police officers and a patrol car by court order.
Fernando identifies his mother’s crime with the general climate of denialist hatred and, in some cases, direct vindication of the dictatorship by officials. Since Victoria Villarruel and the six deputies of Freedom Advances who visited genocidaires in Ezeiza (which caused an internal crisis in liberalism), until the attack on the sites of memory executed by the same Ministry of Justicethe messages from the government are clear. Added to this are direct actions against human rights activists by “anonymous” groups that claim to be part of the government.
“There are a lot of people who are getting used to this climate of the times,” he reflects. And he adds that “if any person who is not interested in politics listens to the speech of that national deputy who, freely, said that she does not know who (Alfredo) is, Astiz Because she was born in 93, we are in serious trouble.” He refers to Lourdes Arrietathe Mendoza daughter of the military man of the dictatorship Thomas Arrieta and one of the “visitors” of those convicted of crimes against humanity in the Ezeiza prison.
This Monday the wake was held for Susana MontoyaThe family decided that he should remain in the casket. “We will not stop until this is cleared up,” says his son. And he anticipates that “from the Governor down” he wants to have audiences “with everyone. I need it to be resolved and I will not stop. If I have to chain myself to the Government House, I will do it. This time I am the one who is going for everything.” I want to know who was responsible for the brutal murder of my mother. this weekend”.
Ricardo Fermin Alvaredahis father, was a member of the same Cordoba Police who kidnapped him on September 25, 1979. A gang of civilians from Information Department of force took him to the Clandestine Detention Center Directorate of Hydraulics from the capital of Cordoba, where he was tortured and murdered for being an “infiltrator” of the PRT-ERP.
Fernando He says that after the various trials held in the province, including the one in which his father’s case was debated, “there must be around 50 life sentences of members of the Cordoba Policewhich today is full of his children and grandchildren.”
In this context, it is not a minor fact that in December 2023 He himself reported having received threatsalso with posters on a wall, in which they told him that he had run out of “friends” in the Police and that he should not go “either to school or to the headquarters” anymore because he was “going to die”. The reference is to the fact that, summoned by previous chiefs of the force, he had given talks on human rights to second and third year students of the Officers School and was part of the team that set up the Witness Protection Corps. Today, she identifies those threats and others from the past with the crime of which her mother has just been the victim.
As soon as the news was known, the councilor of Left Front In cordoba, Laura Vilchespublicly denounced the crime and demanded “the clarification of the fact al provincial government and the Justice”. And he added that “the government of mercy and his denialist speech creates the right climate for these events to occur.” The leaders of the organization also referred to it on their social networks Left Front at the national level Nicholas del Caño y Myriam Bregman.
Susana Montoya died with signs of violence. She is the mother of Fernando Albareda, a militant of @hijoscba whose father is still missing by the Dictatorship. Those who killed her left a signature that is a threat: “#Police“. We demand urgent clarification of the incident from the Government +
— Laura Vilches 🍉✊🏼 (@VilchesLaura) August 5, 2024
Very serious. The murder of Susana Montoya in Córdoba must be clarified immediately. Our solidarity with her son Fernando Albareda, a member of HIJOS, and the entire family.
Statement by human rights organizations in Córdoba. pic.twitter.com/pKAxGU64p1— Nicolas del Caño (@NicolasdelCano) August 5, 2024
What happened in Córdoba is very serious. We demand the urgent clarification of the crime of which Susana Montoya, Fernando Albareda’s mother, was the victim. We stand in solidarity with the family. Truth and justice.
— Myriam Bregman (@myriambregman) August 4, 2024
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
