Suzacq will arrive in Montevideo on May 2 in the morning on an Iberia flight, accompanied by the deputy director of InterpolDarwin Ferreira, and Deputy Commissioner Eduardo Denis, after the Spanish courts filed an appeal by the Specialized Prosecutor for Crimes against humanity.
According to witnesses, the doctor, now 72 years old, worked in the 6th Cavalry Regiment between 1972 and 1974, converted into a detention and torture center under the coordination of the Army and of the Coordinating Body for Anti-subversive Operationsreported Prensa Latina.
The doctor advised the prisoners to torture, including the application of brutal methods such as the use of electric shocks, waterboarding, beatings, insults, humiliation, hooding, immobilization, restraint with wires, among other practices classified as crimes against humanity.
The National audience of Spain confirmed the extradition in mid-March after rejecting the appeal filed by the defendant, after the court agreed to his extradition in January for crimes of serious injury and deprivation of liberty.
The judges then stated that, although the crime against humanity for which he was claimed was not criminalized in Spain until 2004, the events, due to the date they occurred, would be classified as crimes of illegal detention and injury to the Penal Code of 1973, but they make that decision in response to the “extraordinary seriousness of the facts.”
Source: Ambito
