"The message is" We do what we want "" | Sergio …

"Closing this case is a clear message to society:" We are doing what we want, "warned Sergio Maldonado several hours after hearing Judge Pablo Lleral's decision to dismiss the case for enforced disappearance. of his brother Santiago. The woman and family lawyer said that "it's the first time we're scared," after reading the message on Twitter from Public Safety Minister Patricia Bullrich, who accused them to lie and try to deceive society. "If they act like that with the case of Santiago, how not to scare someone who's coming out to protest?", "What's next?", Lamented Sergio.

At a press conference at the CTA headquarters in Bariloche, Sergio with his wife Andrea Antico and the family lawyer Verónica Heredia amplified the impressions and denunciations left behind by the news of the closure of the Investigation because of the enforced disappearance of Santiago, of which for judge Lleral "there is no person criminally responsible". "We were expecting this, we were not expecting a rude and grotesque act when they decided to do it," Heredia said of news posted the day before the G20 summit with the militarized city of Buenos Aires. Aires, although He recalled that the body of Santiago had appeared on October 17 – coinciding with the day Luciano Arruga had been found – and that the results of the autopsy were known a few hours before the legislative elections of the 39, last year.

"We will fight this resolution from the legal point of view and in the streets," said Heredia, who announced that the family would make appeals to all instances, although he regrets that "we know that we reject the orders because we reject everything there is a year and a half, "recalled the recent rejection by the Supreme Court of the family's request to establish a group of independent investigators to conduct the investigation on the forces of the Ministry of Security dependent. The lawyer warned that the other way to "deal with the machinery and lies of the state is on the street, demanding memory, truth and justice".

Heredia – who represented the family of the missing young man Ivan Torres – cited as an example the fight of the family of Guillermo "Coco" Garrido, who was found hanging in a cell in El Bolsón in 2011 and started this week only the trial that the officers responsible for his death be tried. "It's time to face a state that commits death, torture and disappearances," said the lawyer.

In this tone, Sergio considered that Lleral's decision to close the case and to dismiss Constable Emmanuel Echazú was "a message to society:" We do what we want "". "We were scared for the first time today," said Maldonado after quoting Minister Patricia Bullrich's Twitter message about family and civil society organizations calling for justice for death from Santiago. "Imagine what families who do not receive the support we receive can feel, how vulnerable they feel to the state," Sergio said.

Shortly before, Heredia had reviewed the direction taken by Judge Guido Otranto in the case, recalling that the Secretary of Cooperation of the Ministry of Security, Miguel Cané, was accredited to the magistrate and described how to "use as a curtain "the cause of habeas corpus and enforced disappearance, the first ten pages of the case were to spy on the family of Santiago. "What justice has done, it's use the records of enforced disappearance and habeas corpus, where you can only investigate the public authority, to investigate us," he said. he said without forgetting the role of the prosecutor Silvina Avila.

The lawyer also recalled that a justice strategy had been anticipated "by a journalist who later wrote in La Nación", referring to Loreley Gaffoglio, and then presented by Cané in court. "Many people asked journalism how they should be the cause," added Antico in this sense, and denounced the fact that "this person who received the FOPEA award (Editor's note: Clarín and Telam Claudio Andrade ) told us that we gave him notes, what we hid was going to be unearthed. "

Santiago's sister-in-law lamented the hateful messages and attacks that they received during all these months and the feeling of unfairness for what happened in the case, but said that the Maldonado family "believes that the way is that of justice". "Let's hope the truth is revealed at some point," he said.

During the conference, Sergio and Heredia took over the list of measures rejected by the justice to deepen the repressive operation of the gendarmerie, under the responsibility of the head of the security cabinet, Pablo Nocetti; Doubts about the result of the autopsy and where the body of Santiago appeared, "that could never have happened during a bullfight," said Heredia. With regard to the report of expertise established by the INTI on the DNI of Santiago, which filtered yesterday in Clarín and Infobae and which motivated the closure of the file, the lawyer l 39; described as "not serious".

"The judge received the result of the expert report yesterday morning and in less than 24 hours, he appreciated the badessment, badyzed and drafted the resolution," said Heredia ironically.