The government will ask the federal justice to close the Maldonado case – 28/11/2018

The government will ask the federal court to definitively close the Maldonado case in the face of new evidence that his body remained about 80 days in the Chubut River.

Tests conducted by the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) on a set of DNIs similar to those of Maldonado have shown that they are not affected by the waters of the Patagon River.

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With that, it has been proved that The piece of the artisan's identity stayed with the body for about 80 days. At the end of this scientific work, the Government would ask in the coming days to file the file of the enforced disappearance before Federal Judge Gustavo Lleral.

According to tests carried out in the laboratories of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), the 12 test documents did not offer any modification of the material structure after 90 days immersed. The IDs, of the type that the young man had with him, were placed in buckets containing water from the Chubut River at a temperature of 5 degrees, the same as that estimated in the early days of August 2017. The documents withstood the tests without revealing any changes. in its preparation.

For some of them, the specialists even put them in a fabric similar to the one that the young man wore in his clothes to check his behavior in contact with the water also in this situation.

In any case, the Maldonado family lawyer, Verónica Heredia, had already informed Judge Lleral last October that she was considering "Not relevant" this part of the investigation. In the months of 2017 and 2018, Heredia and her relatives pointed out that the state of the DNI he supported the theory that the young man was arrested and planted in Cushamen.

As a result of the notification of the new and conclusive INTI study, the government of Mauricio Macri and the Ministry of Security led by Patricia Bullrich will ask in the coming days to the federal justice to terminate the law. case that still holds the title of enforced disappearance

"Everything indicates that what has already been proven is confirmed: Santiago Maldonado has not been beaten nor his body has been moved.We are waiting to hear the full report of expertise, in order to define a possible request for a final closure of the case of enforced disappearance and habeas corpus, "he said. Clarin Fernando Soto, director of regulation and adequacy of the regulation of the police and security forces of the country's Ministry of Security.