They will try to judge in Italy the former fugitive who lived in Mendoza

Two human rights groups will promote the trial in Italy of the repressor Carlos Luis Malatto who was living in Mendoza, his extradition having been denied to Argentina, where he is charged in five cases of crimes against humanity committed under the last dictatorship.

"On the same day, the Italian Court of Cbadation dismissed the extradition of Colonel Malatto and the priest Franco Reverberi Boschi, both accused of torture in Argentina, claiming that it was a matter of law. a crime that did not include his criminal code, "he explained today. at Telam Jorge Iturburu, from the "Asociación 24 de Marzo".

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The human rights activist today took part in a press conference at the headquarters of the grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, along with other members of the two human rights badociations. the man in Italy, who encourage the oppression lawsuits of Southern Cone countries still unpunished.

"Unlike torture, homicide with treachery is an imprescriptible crime in Italy, punishable by life imprisonment and we denounced Malatto for four murders," Iturburu said.

With the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Malatto served during state terrorism as deputy intelligence chief of the RIM 22 regiment in San Juan. He is accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering at least four people.

The four victims for whom he was also denounced in Italy are the young and Peronist Franco-Argentinian militant Marie Anne Erize, the soldier Jorge Bonil, the rector of the National University of that province, Juan Carlos Cámpora, and the leader of the Communist Party of San Juan Angel. José Alberto Carvajal

The co-perpetrators of some of the crimes committed by the soldiers of RIM 22 "had already been sentenced to the maximum sentence" in the lawsuit Megacausa I and the Magajuicio II in San Juan is under development, with 21 defendants, including The intelligence of this regiment and direct superior of Malatto, Jorge Antonio Olivera, has been remembered from Iturburu.

Prosecutor of the Argentine judicial system ", Malatto is currently living in Santa Clara, street 2, in the city of Calasciveta, in Sicily, and we hope that he will soon be tried and that his preventive detention will be imposed on him, because he escaped while he had to go to San Juan and can do it again in Italy, "he said.

The report of Emmanuel Lauria from the newspaper La Repubblica of Italy, a journalist who found Malatto in Sicily

Malatto lived with his family in a house in Godoy Cruz before joining the San Juan Mountains infantry regiment, where he was a lieutenant and had participated in the murders and tortures that had been inflicted on him.

Despite the charges against Malatto in the late 1990s, already established in our province, the accused of several crimes in San Juan occupied the position of director of the social protection zone of the 7th Mountain Regiment and discreetly participated in institutional activities. .