A Buenos Aires federal court condemned four former officers to 25 years imprisonment and acquitted a former sergeant for crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s latest civic-military dictatorship. The judges also acquitted former military police sergeant Miguel Víctor Pepe, despite the defense having requested life imprisonment for him. The Banco was located in the livestock stealing division of the police of the province of Buenos Aires, in the La Matanza district. The investigations into all three and the previous four trials proved ABO network operated from early 1977 until the first months of 1979. Outside the court, located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Retiro, members of human rights organizations celebrated the ruling, sheltering from the rain with umbrellas or huddling under gazebos.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald December 07, 2023 11:12 UTC