Sandoval: the 'butcher' of the Argentine dictatorship
By Daniel MEROLLA (AFP) 4 hours ago
Argentine former police officer Mario Sandoval, who was arrested in France on Wednesday, is wanted for crimes against humanity, and torture in connection with the country's "dirty war."
Prosecutors believe Sandoval took part in the kidnapping, torture and murder of some 500 people, at a time when some 30,000 were "disappeared" by the 1976-83 dictatorship.
However, prosecutors based a long-running quest for his extradition on just one case -- that of architecture student Hernan Abriata, whose body has never been found.
Abriata was taken away from his parents' home in Buenos Aires on the night of October 30, 1976.
Answering a ring at the front door, they said they saw a man in military fatigues who introduced himself as "Sandoval, from Federal Coordination" -- a feared police unit linked to disappearances and torture.
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Google translated article:
ARGENTINE DICTATORSHIP: MARIO SANDOVAL WILL BE EXTRADITED
The former French-Argentinean police officer Mario Sandoval has been implicated in the disappearance of a student. Paris has authorized his extradition to Argentina.
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Mario Sandoval obtained the French nationality in 1997, which does not prevent his extradition, because he was not French at the time of the facts.
Argentina suspects it of being involved in the kidnapping and disappearance on October 30, 1976 of Hernan Abriata, a student of architecture who was detained at the School of Marine Mechanics (ESMA). Some 5,000 people passed by this torture center of the Argentinean dictatorship (1976-1983) disappeared, often thrown from planes in the Rio de la Plata.
Tortures and kidnappings
If Argentina suspects Mr. Sandoval of having participated during this period in more than 500 acts of murder, torture and kidnapping, the Abriata file is the only one on which she relies to ask for her extradition because she has a dozen of depositions involving him.
In May 2014, the Paris Court of Appeal had issued a first favorable opinion on extradition, which was overturned in February 2015 by the Court of Cassation. In turn, the Court of Appeal of Versailles had given a positive opinion in October 2017.
A final appeal was subsequently dismissed on May 24. The highest French court has considered that the student has not reappeared since 1976, the prescription of the sequestration did not begin to run because the offense had not ended definitively.
"After 45 years of struggle, the family of Hernan Abriata and in particular the mother of the victim, 92-year-old Beatriz, hope that this last trial will allow Mario Sandoval to finally answer to crimes against humanity that the justice of his country blames him, "responded in a statement the lawyer of the Argentine State, Me Sophie Thonon-Wesfreid. (ps / nxp)
Created: 24.10.2018, 15:36
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Google translated article:
The Justice of France must resolve Mario Sandoval's extradition request
An repressor of ESMA in the City of Light
A year and a half ago Judge Sergio Torres requested the capture for extradition of Churrasco Sandoval, for crimes against humanity against 400 victims. On October 9, the Paris Chamber of Instruction will analyze the request.
Mario Alfredo Sandoval integrated Task Group 3.3.
By Diego Martínez
France has the fate of an ESMA repressor in its hands. This is Mario Alfredo Sandoval, a former member of the Federal Security Superintendence that integrated Task Group 3.3 with the alias “Churrasco”. Sandoval made a career in France, where he wove links in academic, business and political fields, and is a counselor for Colombian paramilitaries. A year and a half ago Judge Sergio Torres requested his international capture for extradition purposes, but Churrasco managed to be imprisoned for just one week, despite being charged with crimes against humanity against 400 victims, including the nuns Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet, a case in which France convicted Alfredo Astiz in absentia and acted as complainant in Argentina. On October 9 the Paris Chamber of Instruction will analyze the request of Judge Torres.
ESMA task forces had sailors and Army liaisons in their ranks, but also prefects, police, penitentiaries and civilians. In 1976 Sandoval was 22 years old, he was an under-inspector officer of the Federal Police and was assigned to the Department of Political Affairs, on the seventh floor of Moreno 1417, four floors above the clandestine center of the Superintendency, from where they removed the militants who they shot in Fatima. From his file it appears that he conducted instructional courses in “anti-subversive struggle”, in which interrogation techniques were taught under torture, and that he was “recommended” in November 1976 for his performance in “anti-subversive procedures”.
In 1984, ESMA survivors declared before Conadep about Churrasco as “operational agent” of GT 3.3. In 2008 Página / 12 reported that the alias belonged to Sandoval and Justice began an investigation that four years later resulted in the request for detention. “He was a very strange guy, he was doing intelligence, an intellectually type of the most prepared within ESMA and very fucked up. If I could bolete you, I would bolete you, there was no mentoring with this man, I really knew what I was doing and what I wanted, ”said Alfredo Buzzalino, an ESMA survivor. “It was something different within ESMA, a guy who handled a lot of information, very cultured. I was not assiduously, ”added the witness, whom Sandoval once interrogated in the Richmond cafe on Florida Street. "He was morochón, combed back, always dressed in a suit," he recalled.
Also of 1984 date the testimonies on the kidnapping of Abriata that mention Sandoval. The operation was at dawn on October 30, 1976 in Elcano 3235 and included an interrogation of Abriata in the room where he slept. Before relatives of the young activist of the JUP, one of the kidnappers identified himself as “Sandoval Federal Coordinating Inspector Officer” (the former name of the Superintendence) and said that “the complaint” against him came from the Faculty of Architecture, where he studied and militated. Among the aliases that managed to listen were “Falcon”, as Captain Néstor Savio called himself, and “Sérpico”, which was Ricardo Cavallo, members of GT 3.3. On November 7, six other architecture students were kidnapped and only one survived. Ten days later, Sandoval achieved the "recommendation" for his outstanding performance in an "anti-subversive procedure." When asked by the attorney general of the Court of Appeals of Paris, Judge Torres explained that that of Abriata is a “witness case”, but that he will investigate Sandoval for all the cases of the ESMA registered between that date and September 1979, when the policeman was transferred to the Federal Resistance delegation, Chaco.
More:
http://casapueblos.blogspot.com/2013/09/la-justicia-de-francia-debe-resolver-el.html
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Video, pompous, smug Sandoval gibbers:
