In Argentina continues taking place trials against perpetrators of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship. The laws of "Obediencia debida" and "Punto final" were derogated by Kirchner´s government.
Buenos Aires Province, April 14, 2011.- The Federal Court 1 San Martin sentenced the former police chief and former Escobar Mayor Luis Abelardo Patti to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
The judges also gave the same penalty to former general Santiago Omar Riveros, former Army intelligence officer Martin Rodriguez and former dictator Reynaldo Bignone.
Patti was sentenced for be “primary participant” in crimes of “murder with two aggravating circumstances of treachery and deliberate competition of two or more people,” in addition to carrying out “illegal searches, illegal deprivation of liberty and imposition of torture.”
The former Escobar mayor was convicted of the crime of militant Gaston Goncalves, after the kidnapping and then killed former Congressman Diego Muniz Barreto, in addition to kidnappings, torture and disappearances in Escobar and Garin, when he was a street officer in the local police station.
Gonçalvez’s son, Manuel Goncalves, who is also grandson recovered by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, said that this statement “is overcome the impunity that had been established by many years.”
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