By Juan Basso. Tuesday testified in court against the gang of Feced, attorney Elias Carranza, who was kidnapped and tortured in the Service Information (SI) of Police Rosario during the dictatorship and has lived for over thirty years in Costa Rica. The renowned criminal lawyer, who is now president of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) , And an eminent international criminal justice, "said his illegal detention was" revenge "for his work on the investigation into the disappearance of Angel" Tacuarita "Brandazza.
lived history by Elias Carranza can see the threads of continuity that joined Agustín Lanusse dictatorships emerged with the March 24, 1976, while that of Jorge Rafael Videla multiplied until the unthinkable terror and death.
Carranza told the hellish events that lived during his abduction and captivity in the SI, the illegal detention and related work at a Bicameral Commission of the Province of Santa Fe, created in 1973 to investigate the constraints, abductions and disappearances during the dictatorship of Lanusse.
The witness, who lives in Costa Rica, where they lived since his exile, came especially to Rosario to testify at the trial being conducted by the Federal Oral Court No. 2, and was accompanied by a large contingent of family filled the courtroom. Carranza
raised at the beginning of his testimony "need to refer to work done by the Bicameral Commission that investigated the abduction and disappearance of activist Angel" Tacuarita "Brandaza", kidnapped and disappeared in November 1972.
Witness reported that in those days he was employed by the judge in Rosario and was appointed to the commission of inquiry, which managed to rebuild most of the way suffered by the young militant and identify those involved in the incident.
"Brandazza, a young student of Economics and worker who was kidnapped by federal, provincial, military and police. Commissioner carried 5 of Dorrego street and poked until he died. Then your body anchored in the river Paraná, "said the witness.
Carranza recalled the "courageous" work done by the committee chaired by Deputy Juan "Chancho" Lucero (PJ) and seconded by radical Ruben Martinez. "The case was high profile Brandazza published, but during the next military coup would be multiplied by 30,000," said the witness.
Part of the research work done by that commission was reported by Carranza. "We determined," said the lawyer, with varying degrees of criminal responsibility for participation were several members of SAR command: Elbio General Leandro Anaya, Juan de Dios General of Perpetual Help Zavalía Carranza, Colonel Vilanova, higher Giger and Bonifacino, Assistant Sergeant Emilio Letto, the gendarme Gamboa, the police Luis Gallardo Cape federal Pilgrim (aka Jopito), Deputy Inspector Jorge Roberto Ibarra (aka Calculín), Cape First Atilio Gerla (aka Seamstress), agents Bellet and Ruben Hugo José Felipe Fernández, and members of the Provincial Police Officer Marcelo Olazagoitía Ovid Assistant Officer Deputy Inspector Maximo Alberto Grandi, Ruben Oscar Cabos San Juan and Gregorio Prieto and Angel Jesús Farías agent. "
Then the witness said that during the operation of the Commission, an opportunity "strafed the windows of our office in the courthouse" in another "shot at our car, and another time put a bomb in the car when we were going to rise, which exploded destroying and torching three vehicles parked in a row. " The most serious of the events during the operation of the Commission "was the kidnapping and murder of lawyer Felipe Rodríguez Araya and Attorney Lescano, who had collaborated with his signature providing valuable information to clarify the facts that we investigated", said Carranza.
The survivor said repeatedly strafed the house of Juan Lucero, chairman of the Committee, and the day the military coup in March 1976 took home a gang abducted, but later was officially deprivation of freedom was imprisoned for over five years available to the executive branch. "
On February 18, 1977 Carranza was abducted while going down the boulevard Orono, just a few blocks from where the trial takes place now, and was taken to the Information Service of the Police Headquarters of Rosario, where he ran the clandestine center detention and extermination largest Santa Fe
For his work in judicial employee, Carranza became a key witness. The survivor told the judges who "knew very well there," and that while "blindfolded" could identify "the tiles immediately below the band."
At that time, Carranza began the tale of hell. "Despite the ordeal I went through and moved my family, I think I was lucky by people who were in that place, described the witness. During the month I was in that place there will have been between 20 or 30 people, women and men, between the first floor, staircase and the basement where they fell. The number varied because they brought new people, then torturing them is being taken and did not appear more or are taking them to prisons officialized. The torture sessions were constant, the piercing screams of the tortured. I think the neighbors should be heard by the lower windows had the basement. "
Carranza recalled the names of several of his fellow captives, including Analía Minetti, who has been missing and is one of those killed in the cause for which the trial is carried out. He also mentioned a man named Filippini that "Bogart was the wife of a policeman who was separating, and that cost will put him along with us."
The witness said he was repeatedly interrogated by both the leaders of SI, as Feced and Guzman Alfaro, for another group of six or seven people including recognized several of those involved in the kidnapping and disappearance of Brandazza. Among the tremendous shock sessions and application of electric shocks suffered, Carranza torturers heard reminded her of her past as a member of the Bicameral Commission of Inquiry.
"I remember one of those around me-Carranza recalled, when I was blindfolded and handcuffed me said," I came from afar to this meeting. " And another said, "you know who I'm coming in Tirzah." Jesús Ángel Farías That was possibly the most cowardly of me to investigate. Now reappeared with the military government. We had stopped when he was in a group up to Tirzah Villa Constitution. "
"In some interrogations wanted me to say that Carmen Lucero was montonera and used weapons. Carmen was the daughter of Congressman John Lucero. Was just 16 years, "said the witness.
Carranza made a special remark regarding Carmen Lucero, who with "his 16 years he endured with fortitude and great dignity of torture." The witness said that she was abducted for being the daughter of "Pig" Lucifer. " He also reminded "Adrian Sanchez 16 or 17 years, and another boy, Bas and Mansilla, of the same age. It was also John Joseph Mattos, and had a priest Third, I think it was the priest had been kidnapped Garcia with his constant companion and mortified. "
also said that "the couple were Cady (Ricardo Chomicky one of the defendants in the trial) and Victoria who were active in the JUP had a couple of more years of Carmen and that group, and had completely broken and used to kidnapping and torture of others. "
Among the repressors that could identify Kunfú mentioned Carranza, Kunfito, Managua, peeling or Sergeant (Ramón Vergara, another of the accused), the Cure (Mario Marcote) and the Blind or Mengele (Fiego Joseph), Agustín Feced and Raul Guzman Alfaro.
Carranza made another stop to make a reference to the "Chicken" José Baraballe, another kidnapped, accused by many of the survivors as a collaborator, "who had broken torture." The witness said that "although it is dead, I feel obligated to say that I met him in the Favela and the basement, and I confessed what he had done. He said that his group of militants had established that at 48 hours after being kidnapped one militant, the rest should lift all the known addresses. Baraballe was being tormented trying to help those who were there, and take to the bathroom. When passed near Chicken shoes, we could ask for water or bathroom, where we spent another kicked. " Carranza
recounted the ordeal suffered by his family during his imprisonment. He noted that after his captivity in the SI, was transferred to the Coronda, and that four months was released, after passing the command of the Second Army Corps, where Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri decided about life and death men and women in five provinces.
At the close of testimony, paused, filled with dates, names and references, Elias Carranza, the judge presiding over the court, Otmar Paulucci was dispatched with a salute to the witness who surprised many of those present. "I want to say personally, I feel very proud to have known him, "said the magistrate. After the farewell, the room erupted in applause.
The trial is charged to the former head of the Second Corps, Ramon Genaro Diaz Bessone, a former police José Carlos Rosario Scortechini, Rito Ramón Vergara, Mario Alfredo and José Rubén Lo Marcote Fiego; and civil charges of complicity with the dictatorship Ricardo Miguel Chomicky.
The "hold"
Outside, witnesses, plaintiffs and everyday people do "endurance" of the trial, expected Elijah to hug and greet. One of the most exciting events was the one that came with Carmen Lucero.
Carranza text for The Daily Reckoning
In a short exchange of words that Elias Carranza had with Drafting Rosario, acknowledged to have forgotten that some details would have liked to mention, and reported that before his statement was taken the trouble write a summary of what purported to testify. Editorial Rosario, offered his website and blog The Daily Reckoning (edited by Rosario Drafting and The Link, where you can find all cause chronic Díaz Bessone) to publish the text that you can read this link.
You can read all the coverage of the trial Díaz Bessone in The Daily Reckoning.
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