Prosecutor Ricardo Perciballe indicated that “a pure and simple investigation” will be undertaken in this regard.
He prosecutor specialized in Crimes Against Humanity, Ricardo Perciballereported at a press conference that the case will be reopened to determine those responsible for the disappearance and murder of Amelia Sanjurjoactivist of Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU)during the dictatorship.
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This Tuesday, the lawyer explained that all the work that has been done so far will be presented. “He took it Prosecutor’s Office because we were not certain that there was a cause,” he added. In that sense, what is “the pure and simple investigation into the identity of those responsible” will be undertaken.


Sanjurjo, who was born in Montevideo in 1936, she was recently pregnant when she was kidnapped on November 2, 1977 on a public street and later transferred to the clandestine center of La Tabladawhere she was tortured and murdered.
After the discovery of his remains on June 6, 2023 in the Battalion 14this Tuesday it was confirmed that the results of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) They identified it 99.9%, according to Perciballe.
Excavations will begin in search of remains of missing people in 15 new sites
The director of the National Institution of Human Rights and Ombudsman’s Office (INDDHH), Wilder Taylerannounced this Tuesday at a press conference that in the coming months excavations will begin in the Material and Armament Service in search of missing persons, as well as in other private properties.
Tayler explained that there are “15 sites of interest” both in Montevideo and in the interior of the country to begin excavations, but that at the same time they will continue working in Battalion 14, where two anthropologists continue carrying out tasks.
“We do not have plans or maps with a cross, if we had that all this would end very quickly,” reflected the leader. “The type of information we get is broad and vague,” he said.
Source: Ambito