2024-01-16 13:47:47
The Permanent Assembly for Human Rights of Argentina (APDH) published a statement to repudiate the blocking of Franco Reverberi’s extradition to Argentina. The Human Rights organization emphasizes the need to deepen and ratifies its commitment to the Truth and Justice Memory process.
Franco Reverberi, el fugitive priest, is required by your criminal liability for crimes of unlawful deprivation of liberty and torture of approximately a dozen people and the murder of José Guillermo Berón during the last Argentine civil-military dictatorship.
In the statement the APDH explained: Italian Minister of Justice, Carlos Nordio, spoke out once morest the extradition of Franco Reverberi alleging alleged health reasons for the priest. In that way reversed a mistake issued by the highest Italian criminal court which, in 2023, and following an exhaustive medical examination, determined the health feasibility of extradition.
And he also adds: «the political decision of the Italian government deepens the impunity that Reverberi He has been enjoying it illegitimately since 2011, the year he fled Argentina. It is not rash to conjecture that this political decision is a “friendly” gesture between two far-right governments; in the Argentine case, with a clearly denialist profile of the crimes once morest humanity committed by its armed and security forces in the 1970s and 1980s.”
Both Human Rights organizations and family and friends of José Guillermo Berón expected the priest to provide information regarding the final destination of his body and the missing persons in San Rafael, Mendoza, where Reverberi collaborated with the military repression in the Clandestine Center. of Detention and Torture known as “La Departamental”.
The APDH, in collaboration with the Italian human rights organization “24 de Marzo Onlus”, ensures that it promotes criminal action in Italy, where there are also open criminal proceedings once morest other agents of the state terrorism that prevailed in Argentina.
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