Former Judge Galeano denied the accusations against him for the AMIA attack investigation.

The former federal judge Juan José Galeano He denied the charges of concealing the judicial investigation into the AMIA attack and said that he could have made mistakes but not crimes: "The AMIA investigation fell victim to the misery of the internal intelligence and security services, which I always claimed to be alien."

Thus, Galeano expressed his last words before the Federal Oral Court 2, which judges him for the concealment of the investigation into the badault and for which the prosecution and all the complaints requested his sentence to a prison sentence. .

"I come to ask you this time to put you in my place, to badyze what they would have done in my place", started Galeano by saying and reviewing his judicial career and what it was like to work in the mid-90s in the courts.

Galeano was at the head of the federal court when, on 18 July 1994, 85 people were killed and 151 wounded during the bombing of the AMIA. He was at the helm of the investigation until December 2003, when he was. Due to his poor performance at the head of the case, he was sacked following a political trial in August 2005.

Galeano's investigation was successful and the irregularities were quashed in September 2004 by the Federal Court of Appeal 3, which ordered the case against the judge to be challenged.

In the oral trial, which began in August 2015, is accused of having authorized an illegal payment of $ 400,000, which was paid by the former SIDE to the reduction of the car. Carlos Telledín falsely say that police officers from Buenos Aires had received the traffic van that exploded in the AMIA.

He was also charged with compelling two witnesses to testify against the police. And for leaving aside the so-called "Syrian track" which underlined Alberto Kannore Edul after receiving a call from Munir Menem, deceased brother of President Carlos Menem, then head of the Presidents Unit.

Galeano denied the facts. He stated that he had not paid the 400,000 dollars to Telledin and that it was a decision of SIDE protected by law. "This was recognized by all, was an act governed by law and was clarified in this lawsuit that was not prohibited by the legislation of the time." The payment to Telleldín, as we saw in this lawsuit, had legal support, carried out by the specialized institution for the management of the reserved funds and within the limits of their competences, "he said.

He also refused to act at the request of Menem. "I invite you to think," he told the judges of the oral court: "Have you ever called them the brother of the president of the nation to give them an order? Imagine that you did not even know that person. Ladies and gentlemen, we all know that this does not happen, but this fact has been presented as a fact and I have been accused of it. Even former President (Cristina) Kirchner, in collusion with some parties, repeated it to you "He added that "in March 2015, the former head of state had urged the president of the Supreme Court" to ensure that this trial can begin as it should. "

"The AMIA case investigation, because of its volume and complexity, can certainly involve errors, which are explained by inexperience in dealing with new situations and by the lack of competence in a different scenario type than the one used in the instructional justice ", was justified.

And he said he trusted the judges at the time of the verdict: "I am sure you will not allow yourself to be pressured, and I am convinced that you understood that it was proven in this trial that the facts described by prosecutors Complaints constitute a crime. I left the soul to go to the truth"He concluded.

In December 2017, prosecutor Roberto Salum had requested that Galeano be sentenced to 13 years in prison along with disqualification for life to perform official duties. The six complainants who intervened in the case also requested the conviction of Galeano, including the Department of Justice of the Nation and Active Memory, which brings together relatives of the victims of the attack.

The trial also includes former prosecutors in the Eamon Mullen and José Barbaccia cases, former President Menem, the former president of SIDE, Hugo Anzorreguy, and then DAIA's president, Rubén Beraja, l & rsquo; Lawyer Víctor Stinfale and Telledín, among others.

The trial is in its last stage during which the accused pronounces his last words before the verdict, which has no date yet and which must be dictated by Judges Jorge Gorini, Karina Perilli and Nestor. Costabel.