Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Arrested five people linked with the "death flights" in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, 10 May. Three former rider of the Naval Prefecture, a Navy exsuboficial and a lawyer have been arrested for their alleged links with the so-called "death flights" that were made during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Those arrested were Alejandro Domingo D'Agostino, Enrique José de Saint Georges and Daniel Arru Mario, who allegedly piloted the "anomalous flight" from which were thrown alive people who belong to the "group of victims of the Church of the Holy Cross" December 14, 1977, explains the Judicial Information Center (ICJ) in a note.

Among the victims of that flight were the founder of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Azucena Villaflor, and French nun Leonie Duquet, according to local media need. Moreover, in the city of Mendoza (West) was arrested on Monday night (early Tuesday in Spain), former Navy Petty Officer Ricardo Rubén Ormello, "who allegedly confessed to colleagues for their active participation" in "death flights." Finally, the judicial authorities arrested the lawyer Gonzalo Torres de Tolosa Dalmacio, "who would be strongly linked to the actions of the task force that operated" in the School of Naval Mechanics (ESMA) in Buenos Aires, the largest clandestine jail military dictatorship.

Torres de Tolosa was also mentioned by Adolfo Scilingo, military convicted of crimes against humanity, in his book 'The Flight' as a participant in the death flights, said the ICJ. The arrests were ordered by Federal Judge Sergio Torres after receiving the "results of a large number of test measures that had previously provided" under the "megacauses ESMA."

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