Italy: Argentine ex-wife wanted for crimes against humanity is located

ROME.- The former Argentine soldier Carlos Luis Malatto, arrested for 11 years for a total of 11 cases of torture, lives in a serene house located a few meters from the sea, in a private neighborhood of Portorosa, Sicily. They moor yachts and an excellent hotel for tourists with pool and other
amenities. Malatta moves into a blue Mercedes Slk and is preparing to marry a woman, also from Argentina.

He discovered a newspaper survey
The Republic, who today published an article entitled
"The dolce vita of the Argentine executioner" and in its online edition, a
A video in which Malatto, who appears shirtless at the entrance of his house, after confirming his identity, realizing that they were journalists, is quickly masked and locked in his house.

Exteniente Colonel of the San Juan Mountain Infantry Regiment, Malatto, now 70 years old, was tried in San Juan for crimes against humanity, 11 cases of torture and disappearances. But in 2011, after obtaining an Italian pbadport through dual nationality, he managed to escape to Italy, which denied years later the extradition requested by the Argentine justice system. In recent years, aware of his situation because of his past tortured, he has changed residence several times. "He was in Pescara, Genoa and until last year in Calascibetta [Sicilia]where he was gone, "he said.
THE NATION Jorge Ithurburu, president of the Italian badociation "24 de marzo", who defends human rights and helps to persecute the repressors who remain free in the world.

Ithurburu explained that Italian justice had rejected in 2014 the extradition of Malatto because of legislative problems: there was no crime of torture in the Italian penal code, but a similar typology prescribed after two years .

But since Malatto is also an Italian citizen, he has been denounced as such for political crimes committed abroad: kidnapping and aggravated murder under the torture of the young Franco-Argentine model
Marie-Anne Erize Tisseau – disappeared in the province of San Juan on October 15, 1976 – and Juan Carlos Cámpora, Jorge Bonil and Alberto Carvajal.

Prosecutor Tiziana Cugini, to whom the San Juan Federal Attorney forwarded the minutes, audios and videos of the witnesses, ended the investigation early last year. But the trial was blocked because Malatto was never able to receive the here called
avviso di garanzia (summary notification) because he was no longer in his last home in Calascibetta.

The newspaper survey
The Republic, who found it in the private neighborhood of Portorosa, by the sea, in the village of Furnari, province of Messina, has now changed the situation. "This is a step forward, it will revive the prosecution and we hope that a preliminary hearing will take place in six months," he said.
THE NATION Ithurburu And he emphasized the fact that Malatto, which is located in a region famous for its high mafia density, is obviously "very protected".

"It is defended by the lawyer Augusto Sinagra [que lo defendió a Licio Gelli, capo de la logia masónica P2], very influential Sicilian, far right, everyone is scared and has many contacts there. How do you explain, otherwise, the changes of residence with non-existent addresses? "He asked.

Former defender of human rights, fearing that Malatta will escape again, Ithutburu ordered the imposition of a restrictive measure: "They must withdraw his pbadport so that he can not go to Turkey, for example , or be forced to do it. twice a week to the carabineers to sign saying they are present. "" They can not stop him because he's 70, he can not repeat the crime, he can not change the evidence against him and he's not scary to anyone, but he's imposing some restrictions, they can "he explained.

Ithurburu also pointed to the high standard of living of Malatto, who is responsible not only for an Argentinian justice capture warrant, but also a reward order of 100,000 pesos for those who provide information, as confirmed the prosecutor's office of San Juan. "He is in a private area, with private security, in a very busy place, he moves silently all over a Mercedes and he seems to be working on the paperwork in the municipality to get married … They said that in that same closed neighborhood, Bernardo Provenzano, the Cosa Nostra capo, was also hidden. "