Thirteen years have passed since the life sentence of former Argentine repressor Etchecolatz guilty of the crime of 'genocide'
Buenos Aires.- After the repeal of the End Point and Due Obedience laws in 2003, Etchecolatz was the first official of the dictatorship to be brought to trial. There he was accused of the death of Diana Teruggi, in an operation carried out in 1976 in which the Task Force of Etchecolatz bombarded for hours the house of the victim, where a printing press of the armed group Montoneros, destroying it completely and killing the occupants with a match bomb, in addition to the illegal deprivation of liberty, torture and homicide of Patricia Dell'Orto, Ambrosio de Marco, Nora Formiga, Elena Arce and Margarita Delgado, and kidnappings and torture of Jorge Julio López and Nilda Eloy, who survived
On September 19, 2006, he was found guilty of the aforementioned charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Marcos Paz prison. The ruling of the Federal Oral Court No. 1 of La Plata declared for the first time in Argentine history that they were "crimes against humanity committed in the context of a genocide."