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A former Salta police chief is tried for abusing the sister of a murdered militant

According to the prosecutor, the victim was sexually abused by personnel of the Salta Police, including the totilar, Joaquín Guil, on April 24, 1975, when he went to the Headquarters of that force to ask for news of his brother, who had been executed a few years ago. days before.

  • 24/09/2023 • 22:25

The Federal Oral Court (TOF) 1 of Salta began judging this Wednesday the former police chief Joaquín Guil for sexual abuse against the sister of a Peronist Youth (JP) militant murdered in 1975 by the provincial police, in an illegal procedure for which the accused has already been convicted.

 

"It is very important that the atrocious suffering and humiliation that the victim had to experience to recover his brother's body be known," Nora Leonard, of the "Lucrecia Barquet" Association, an entity named after a woman, told Télam. fighter for human rights.

 

The leader and human rights activist in Salta considered that "all these things have to be known" and added: "Now, that there is a whole barrage of right-wing people who want to deny everything, is when we are going to talk about all this the most "We are going to remember and we are going to fight for a law of memory."

 

Leonard made these statements at the conclusion of the first hearing of the trial against Guil, former director of Security of the Salta Police, who was accused of indecent abuse aggravated by the use of force or intimidation against people, by the quality of the perpetrators and by the contest of two or more people.