Uruguay reopens case against unpunished former repressor

[Judi Lynn]

Montevideo, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) The Navy of Uruguay has admitted that former repressor Jorge Troccoli participated in the detention and kidnapping of the disappeared teacher Elena Quinteros in 1976, during her attempt to find asylum in the embassy of Venezuela.

The government of Uruguay handed in official incriminating documents of the country's Riflemen Corps to the Court of Appeal of Rome, according to Radio Sarandi.

The former members of the past dictatorship (1973-1985) condemned by the Court for crimes against humanity number 13, and the only one residing in Italy is Troccoli, after having escaped his country in 1977 and qualifying for double citizenship.

The new process due to be opened around the Quinteros case is added to Troccoli's convictions for his central role in the intelligence service of the Navy in the planning of the homicide of political prisoners from May to October, 1978, according to Argentina's Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy (Escuela Superior de Mecanica de la Armada, ESMA)

Troccoli was one of the first former members of the military to admit publicly the existence of torture during interrogations during the dirty war against left-wing and progressist movements and the subsequent dictatorship, and even wrote a book titled 'La ira de Levatian' ('The Wrath of Leviathan') where he narrates his own experiences.

The Italian justice also accuses him of the kidnapping and homicide of the citizen Rafaela Filipazzi Rossini, born in Brescia, along her husband, Jose Agustin otenza, on May 27th, 1977, in the Hermitage Hotel in Montevideo, and whose remains were found in Asuncion, Paraguay.

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