He request for parole what the repressor Juan Daniel Ámelong did weeks ago was rejected this Wednesday by the Federal Justice in Rosario. The accused, who is about to comply 20 years in prisonwas convicted of crimes against humanity in clandestine detention centers that operated during the last military dictatorship.
Ámelong has a final ruling by the commission of 36 aggravated homicides and sentence not ratified by 19 forced disappearances, of which all but one were followed by death. In these trials he was also convicted of 72 cases of torture and 59 illegitimate deprivations of liberty, and at the moment he is in preventive detention in two other cases.
Along these lines, the representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office opposed the convict receiving the benefit for exist “a series of obstacles that would make conditional release inadmissible”. Among them, that he is currently being prosecuted with preventive detention in two cases that are being brought to trial, and also that he is being investigated in the framework of a third case in which he was investigated and in which his provisional detention was ordered.
The prosecutor also recalled that “in relation to the serious violations of human rights, The State must refrain from resorting to figures such as amnesty, pardon, prescription«, according to the treaty of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), taking crimes against humanity as a violation of the community as a whole.
Ámelong will remain in prison
The prosecution also maintained that the attitude that Ámelong has had over time «does not allow us to infer that he has acquired the capacity to understand and respect the law in view of adequate social reintegration in pursuit of the understanding and support of society.»
In that sense, Villatte highlighted that Ámelong did not provide any information in order to clarify the facts or data about the remains of the missing persons, as well as the fate of the appropriate sons and daughters; that does not recognize the seriousness of the crimes nor the damage caused and that it continues to cause, and that its early release would have devastating effects at a social level and on those affected.
Finally, the judge who was supposed to rule on the issue rejected the request from Ámelong’s defense, in a ruling that was highlighted by human rights organizations on social networks.
VICTORIA VILLARRUEL SPOKE ABOUT ÁMELONG DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Ámelong, linked to numerous testimonies from survivors of the dictatorship and documentary evidence such asone of the members of the “gang” of Detachment 121of Rosario Intelligence, achieved recognition outside the city after the vice presidentVictoria Villarruel will claim itduring the debate prior to the presidential elections in which the formula he shares with Javier Milei was established.
“There were victims of terrorism here who do not have human rights. Many people are detained, such as Amelong.He is a person whose father was murdered by Montonerosin democracy, in 1974 in Rosario. He was a civilian, an engineer with 11 children.His son is in prison for crimes against humanity and why not those who murdered his father?“Villarruel said at that time.