By Juan Basso. Lawyers for victims and the prosecution demanded the annulment of the testimony of Judge Laura Cosidoy, who said on Tuesday in the trial against the repressive dictatorship that performed at the Information Service police Rosario (SI). Cosidoy had been proposed as a witness for the defense of the accused.
Tuesday's hearing was hot. What looked to be an exhibition to show off, became a real problem for the federal judge Laura Inés Cosidoy, since after its declaration, a trial the prosecution called for the annulment of his testimony.
The courtroom was full. The public was split evenly between the habitual participants the "stamina" of the trial, relatives of missing persons and concerning the human rights struggle of the city, and members of the legal corporation, which remarkably came in large numbers. Judge Cosidoy
As had been proposed as a witness by lawyers for the oppressors, began asking these questions, which the judge replied smoothly.
But the air was getting thick, after the judge witness, who is a member by the other TOF part of the city, the N ° 1 -, asked to "make a statement" in response to statements they had made different survivors SI, who gave evidence before her.
Cosidoy The judge then raised by the public statements by witnesses at trial, which had been their constituents when it was officially advocate, she looked relieved of privilege, and then went on to read letters written by them , and have made that make the complicated situation in which they were subjected in those years of political detainees, in what appeared to be a kind of self-redress, since during the ongoing process that is acting as lawyer trade was clearly questionable.
The lightness with which he referred to Cosidoy kidnapped, tortured and illegally detained, raising the thermometer was present at the hearing, until one of the prosecuting attorneys asked for the floor and scored Cosidoy said that they were going the sense in which it had been called to testify.
At that time, one of the lawyers of the Human Rights Secretariat of the Nation and member of HIJOS, Álvaro Baella, held a pose for revocation of testimony which was joined Cosidoy all complaints, and the prosecution, and that advocates oppose the oppressors.
After a counterpoint between defense lawyers and victims, the court decided to make a recess until tomorrow, which will give reply. Al
conclusion of the hearing from the group HIJOS are repudiated the judge said. "He dedicated himself to attacking fellow survivors, with insults insulting, to the point that outright called them" liars "and committed the atrocity relieve auto legal professional privilege," expressed from the human rights body. Fundamentals
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Under the hearing, Baella, attorney for the Department of Human Rights and militant nation-CHILDREN-complaint said the "first heard at length at the witness" and then to detect a number of irregularities in his deposition, all causes of nullity, "asked the court to apply the regulations do not allow the continuation of the same."
Among the arguments raised by the Secretariat of Human Rights stated that "the facts he has stated (Cosidoy) are not part of the procedural purpose of these cars" and then stated that "witnesses are a source of proof must lay about the events that are being judged. "
The lawsuit also recalled that "many times we hear how this court limited the testimony of witnesses who testified about events that unfortunately are still judging." Another of the signs
that justified the revocation of the declaration was that the witness Cosidoy "revealed private correspondence between lawyer and client". Lastly
CHILDREN members recalled through a press release that section of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Nation (CPP), which indicates the grounds for revocation of a declaration, raises quote: "should not report on secret facts who have come to their knowledge by reason of their state, trade or profession, under pain of nullity: the ministers of religion admitted, lawyers, attorneys and notaries, doctors, pharmacists, midwives and other assistants of the healing art; military and government officials on state secrets. "
The cause
In this trial, being conducted by the Federal Oral Court No. 2 (TOF) from Rosario are sitting on the dock the former commander of the Second Army Corps, Ramon Genaro Diaz Bessone; to former police José Rubén Lo Fiego Rosario, Rito Ramón Vergara, Mario Alfredo and Jose Carlos Scortechini Marchetto, and Ricardo Miguel Chomicky civil.
The accused are being charged with integrating the apparatus of repression that operated between 1976 and 1979 in the then Service Information (SI) of police in Rosario, the most secret detention center of the southern province of Santa Fe
The SI work in the facet of Dorrego and San Lorenzo, in the heart of this city, in an old building where he was for years the Police Headquarters of Rosario and now houses the local headquarters of the Interior. It is estimated that there spent at least 1,800 detainees-disappeared.
This part of the cause Díaz Bessone was elevated to trial, has 91 victims of state terrorism and more than 160 witnesses who will share their stories about what happened in the SI during the first year of the last dictatorship.
The TOF 2 is composed of judges Otmar Paulucci, Beatrice Knight and Jorge Venegas Echagüe aground, while the team carrying forward the tax charge is comprised of Stara Gonzalo and Mario Gambacorta.
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