The president of the highest criminal court, Mariano Borinsky, highlighted the “historical and judicial” value of the site. During the last dictatorship, he joined the repressive circuit known as “ABO.”
The judges of the Federal Court of Criminal Cassationchaired by Mariano borinsky, They visited the memory site and former clandestine center of “Olimpo” arrest along with the Ambassador of the European Union in Argentina, Amador Sánchez Rico. The tour was coordinated by the Commission of Crimes against Humanity of the highest criminal court led by doctor Alejandro Slokar.
In addition to the visit, a large gathering of judicial officials participated, Ambassador of the European Union in ArgentinaAmador Sánchez Rico, the judges Adriana Palliotti, Adrián Grünberg, Néstor Costabel, Daniel Rafecas, Daniel Morin, Ernesto Kreplak. They were also part of the visit the prosecutors Javier De Luca, Alejandro Alagia, among other officials of the federal oral courts and federal courts.
During the tour, Borinsky highlighted the value “historical and judicial” of the site and reaffirmed the commitment of the judiciary in the development of the trials in which crimes against humanity are investigated. Furthermore, he recalled that this year the Camera that he presides entrusted to the oral courts regarding federal criminal throughout the country compliance with practical rules in the processes in which investigate crimes against humanity in order to guarantee the preservation of all the evidentiary material produced and incorporated into these processes.
In one of the paragraphs of CFCP Res. No. 61/14, the judge Slokar stated: “It is important to highlight that the safeguarding of all evidentiary material that may be of historical and judicial value in the persecution and punishment of serious violations of human rights and the Sites of Memory of State Terrorism that functioned as clandestine centers of detention, torture, rape and extermination, emanates from the unavoidable international obligation assumed by the Argentine State to clarify the truth of what happened and inform the victims, their families and society as a whole. (…)”.
He detention center “Olympus” operated during the last civil-military dictatorship, between August 16, 1978 and the end of January 1979, inside a building built at the beginning of the 20th century as a tram terminal.
Years after its construction, the place was transformed into a bus station and, once the dictatorship had begun, it was expropriated by the Armed forces, that they transferred it to the Automotive Division of the Federal Police. From that moment on, it functioned as a site for the illegal detention of people.
There, the repressive forces used the warehouses as torture rooms and isolation, known as “operating room.” In addition, it had individual cells. He Olympus integrated the repressive circuit known as “ABO” (Atlético-Banco-Olimpo), dependent in part on the First Army Corps, headed by commander Guillermo Suárez Mason.
Source: Ambito
