Dictatorship criminals, including 'Angel of Death' Astiz, were transferred to the 'VIP prison'

A group of 19 dictatorship criminals that were transferred to a prison in the older wing of the Ezeiza prison on Friday that was in the Campo de Mayo military ban.

The human rights organization Hijos questioned the step in the justification that the convict was now subject to “privileged” conditions compared to common prisoners.

The Security Ministry did not answer a request for a comment from the Herald About why the convicts were transmitted. At the end of April, the Ministry also rejected the matter of commenting.

The decision was submitted by the judiciary in response to an application by Gabriel Aquino, General Director of the Prison Service for the prison service, which falls under the area of ​​responsibility of the Ministry of Safety at the end of April.

Hijos pointed out that this lasts 10 months after a meeting La Libertad Avanza (LLA) MP. This was highly questioned in human rights organizations and opposition parties and caused great political turbulence last year in 2024.

The press release published on Saturday by Hijos said that the prison service had requested the transfer on the grounds that the service for female occupants had to “create space”.

“The postponement of repressors in Campo de Mayo is not a solution for the overpopulation of the prison,” said the organization, which grouped the children of dictatorship victims. “As relatives, survivors and plaintiffs, we reject that the repressors can comply with their conviction in the Campo de Mayo privilege, which they called the” VIP prison “.

Among the 19 dictatorship criminals are convicted of crimes against humanity, which were committed in the secret “El Olimpo”, “El Banco” and “El Olimpo”, as well as 15 others who operated in the ex-ESMA.

An outstanding name of the group is Alfredo Astiz, who is known as the “angel of death”, and one of the most dreaded torture of the last military dictatorship of Argentina. Astiz is one of the convicts who were visited by LLA MPs last year. It turned out that the legislators and other actors were in conversations to submit bills in order to publish dictatorship criminals in the house arrest or even free them.

News about the move also made it into the military circles. According to a message that was shared by the retired Vice Admiral Jorge Manzor on WhatsApp, the move was carried out on Friday afternoon.

“Our comrades, which were robbed of their freedom in the Heiza prison, were transferred to the Campo de Mayo prison together with all their belongings, where they were individually housed in their assigned rooms,” he wrote.

“Traditionally, retired military men who are in freedom have to cover the necessities of those who are deprived of their freedom,” said Fernando Morales, President of the Navy League, a civil association for members of the marine and other maritime sectors. “Family and friends of a prisoner can send you a refrigerator, a microwave or something else for your comfort, beyond the crimes you may have committed.”

“Conceptively, they still lose a comrade for those who are freedom of freedom, a comrade who is deprived of their freedom, they don't lose their comrades” Herald.

The Military ban Campo de Mayo in the province of Buenos Aires is mainly used for military training. Four secret detention centers that were operated there during the dictatorship from 1976-1983. The 34th unit of Campo de Mayo was a military prison before being transformed into a federal prison in 2008.

The public prosecutor's office Félix Crous, who worked on several crimes against human cases at the end of April, said on the 750 radio station that convicted in the Campo de Mayo prison and in the 31st prison wing of Heseza “in far better conditions” and the 19 -digator criminals, which improves the 34th unity of Campo de Mayo Improve detection disorders.

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