2023-10-10 03:18:00
The former Buenos Aires commissioner Luis Abelardo Patti He was sentenced this Monday to life imprisonment for being necessary participant in the homicide of the former Peronist deputy Diego Muniz Barreto and the attempted murder of his secretary, Juan Jose Fernandezduring the last military dictatorship.
This was ordered by the Federal Oral Court (TOF) number 2 of San Martín, through judges Walter Venditti, Matías Alejandro Mancini and Esteban Rodríguez Eggers, who resolved by unanimously condemn Patti.
This is life imprisonment with absolute disqualification from holding public office for the crimes once morest humanity perpetrated once morest Muniz Barreto and Fernández, the agency stated THAT.
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Likewise, the Buenos Aires Police were ordered to send the complete file of the former commissioner and it was reported that the reasons for the sentence will be announced on October 25.
Previously, the Court – connected remotely with the rest of the hearing participants – heard the last words of Patti, who used that benefit to distance herself from the act for which she was convicted.
“I have never had anything to do with the fact that is being investigated,” the former commissioner – currently with house arrest for previous convictions in other cases once morest humanity– and rehearsed expressions of empathy with the victims.
Patti further maintained that “the State power is omnipotent“, that “those who suffered it had no way to defend themselves” and that “he is very sorry for everything that has happened.”
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“Regarding Mr. Muniz Barreto’s daughter, she has the greatest of respect. I hope that one day I can talk and receive her in my house along with my family and answer any questions she needs,” he said at the end of his presentation.
Who is Luis Abelardo Patti
Patti was already convicted in 2011 for the kidnapping and torture that Muniz Barreto and Fernández suffered in Escobar, but he was not tried for homicide since it had been dismissed for that crime. during the investigation of the case.
During the dictatorship, he was head of the Escobar Police Station of the Buenos Aires Police, from where he commanded operational groups of the Tigre Regional Unit, and in democracy he served in several police units, while After his retirement from the force, he turned to politics.
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Was mayor of Escobar between 1995 and 2003 and then it was elected national deputy in 2005, although his assumption was challenged by the vast majority of the Chamber due to complaints regarding his actions during the dictatorship. In 2008, the federal justice system requested his removal from office and then he was detained for crimes once morest humanity.
Since that moment, he was convicted in three trials for serious human rights violations during state terrorism and in all of them he received the sentence of life imprisonment.
The crime of Diego Muniz Barreto
Muniz Barreto, deputy of the Group of Eight who in 1974 questioned General Juan Domingo Perón, was kidnapped along with Fernández on February 16, 1977 and deprived of his freedom in a police station in Escobar.to later be transferred to the clandestine detention center that operated in Campo de Mayo, the agency stated. Telam.
After two weeks of captivityon March 6 they were taken to the province of Entre Ríos and thrown into a car into the Paraná River with the intention of causing an accident.
Muniz Barreto died in that place but Fernández managed to get out of the vehicle and escape..
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