Tragedy of Austral: When justice takes so long, there is a feeling of emptiness

"When justice takes so long, we feel a strange feeling of emptiness, we know who is responsible, who in 20 years has left us in a group. We are waiting for them to take over what the leaders of the Iberia company (Austral's owner) and the leaders of the Argentine Air Force have done. We want to see what the judiciary says, although our experience sometimes shows that management is biased, "said Politzer.

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With regard to the huge delay which took the beginning of the trial – at the expense of the Federal Oral Court No. 5, Politzer felt that this is due to the fact thate "many interests remain at stake, especially from the company Iberia, which has not respected the Argentine regulations and bought 9 planes that were unsuitable for the transfer of pbadengers. From this disaster was revealed the mismanagement put in place during the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentina and the purchase of Austral in the 90s..

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Ignacio Politzer was 16 when the DC9 plane in which his father was traveling fell. Today, I have 37 and, for 12 years, I have pleaded the cause: "From the moment of the accident, the company did not have any kind of accompaniment with the parents. Even in the early days, they informed families that there were survivors. They managed to delay the court process and even blamed the storm that occurred that night of the accident. "

Despite the delay, he considered "as a victory "that the current directors of Iberia declare for the first time in our country:"They said that they did not want to submit to an Argentine court, but since they carried out commercial operations here, they must submit to these courts. "

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A total of 35 civil servants linked to the civil aviation system will sit Tuesday on the dock to respond to an oral and public trial. The defendants are accused of fraudulent acts followed by death, punishable by sentences ranging from 10 to 25 years in prison.