Austral tragedy: the trial began with the complaint of relatives

While relatives said "end up supporting a duel" since it was "the tragedy of corruption".

The reading of the summons to the trial and the list of defendants before the Federal Criminal Court (TOF) 5 of the city of Buenos Aires was made in the courts of Comodoro Py in the presence of relatives of the victims, some of whom were complainants.

He was then transferred to an intermediate room until Tuesday, April 9 and, depending on the number of witnesses, the trial could last two years, because the days of oral debate will take place only on Tuesday.

With posters that read "Austral 2553 were scrap planes""Judges functional in the face of corruption" and "Prosecutor at your side", the relatives said they could put an end to their mourning that has lasted for almost 22 years.

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La Soledad Cesere, family member of one of the 74 victims, told the agency Telam that "these dead are charged with impunity, is to treat the death without body with the taste of the tragedy of the corruption of what could have been avoided".

"We endure the pain of death with all this and we try to support a duel that we do not finish yet to develop completely and truly because there is something that remains unpunished," explained the wife.

Silvina Rumachella, a plaintiff and family rights advocate of a victim, said that "it has been very difficult to get here, there have been great attempts to reverse the situation" . We already have the truth, responsibilities must be established and wounds begin to close "

He also said that the Austral aircraft was not to fly because it did not have a mandatory alarm alarm installed in Argentina since 1987. The pilots were subtracted because Austral had obtained derogations illegal army of the air. "

The beginning of the first trial was delayed by the complaint of family members of the complainant who were placed in the public sector and divided by a blindex instead of sitting next to their lawyers and defendants.