The Federal Chamber resolved the reactivation of the case in which the attack on the Federal Police dining room that occurred in July 1976 is being investigated, in which 24 people died and ordered the summoning of an investigation to Mario Firmenich. For the Chamber, the case is not time-barred since it is a serious violation of human rights and “It was never even minimally investigated by the State”.
In detail, the court instructed Judge María Servini to deepen the investigation, after the case was filed in the first instance. It also revoked the dismissals of Mario Eduardo Firmenich, Horacio Verbitsky, Laura Silvia Sofovich, Miguel Ángel Lauletta, Lila Victoria Pastoriza, Norma Walsh and Carlos Aznares.
Justice ruled on Firmenich’s investigation
The call for investigation points to Firmenich as the main responsible for the attack to a division of the Federal Police. It took place on July 2, 1976, during the last civil-military dictatorship, and left 24 dead and 60 injured.
In a twist in the treatment of the case, the chambermaids Bruglia, Bertuzzi and Llorens maintained that that incident is not statute-barred since it was a “serious violation of human rights.” In this sense, they added: “Repair the rights of the first victims of the attack and, at the same time, protect those of those others who today appear before the courts of justice – the forgotten ones – it is not appropriate to keep the investigative paths occluded.”
The court had already ordered the case to be opened and the facts investigated two and a half years ago. Now, the ruling of the Federal Chamber provides that Firmenich be investigated and that other perpetrators or concealers participate in the attack be investigated.
The court highlighted that the criteria set for this particular case is “exceptional” due to the “brutal” nature of the attack, where the victims were not members of the State.
The attack on the dining room
In detail, the attack occurred at 1:20 p.m. on July 2, 1976, when a bomb detonated in the dining room of a Federal Security Superintendency. It was located at 1431 Moreno Street in the Federal Capital.
Moments after the ruling, a statement from the Montoneros organization claimed responsibility for the incident: “We made 40 diners from the Federal Security Superintendency fly through the air,” they celebrated on one of the pages of the first issue of the magazine “Estrella Federal” of the month of May 1977.
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