http://po.org.ar/blog/2013/05/04/una-lucha-que-sigue/ (English and Spanish versions)
A struggle that continues Prensa Obrera 1266 05/02/13 | Partido Obrero (Workers Party) | May 2, 2013 The struggle for justice for Mariano Ferreyra continues on many fronts and in various different forms. In a few weeks, the trial of the Railway Union "expert" who tried to destroy the evidence of the projectile that killed Mariano will begin. The case of the attempted payment of bribes to Court of Cassation (Superior Court) judges, in which an additional person has been charged, is also moving forward. Finally, the much touted protected witness provided by the government is under investigation for possibly having participated in the crime. An "expert" on trial Roberto Jorge Locles a retired Army captain, will be brought to trial in June for having altered the bullet extracted from the body of Mariano Ferreyra. Locles was expert witness for the defense of William Uño, a member of the gang that attacked the outsourced workers on October 20. Locles, not even an expert, has acted as a provocateur in several widely publicized cases. A long-standing resolution of the Court, dating back to 1998, indicates that Locles was not expert or qualified in this area. As a result he was excluded from the list of experts in forensic ballistics, in which he possesses no evidence of specialized training. The lawyer Gustavo Igounet, defense counsel for Uño, and linked to a firm that used to defend repressors of the Air Force, could hardly have been unaware of this in relation to Locles, who is quite a buffoon. In other words, one should wonder whether Locles' role, when he was hired by the Railway Union, was not precisely that: to destroy evidence. Locles has experience in this regard: some fifty murderers belonging to the Buenos Aires Province police force, accused in cases of trigger-happy caused deaths, managed to be cleared of charges due to the "expertise" of this individual. Now Locles is going to be put on trial because, according to the prosecutor's brief "with the alleged purpose of explaining his theory (that the bullet had bounced before wounding the victim), he repeatedly struck the projectile against the surface of the work table in the lab", which caused the bullet to be "slightly crushed in parts of the nose and body, more specifically where linear and parallel deformations were to be found on the projectile." Igounet, we should be reminded, received no fees from Uño, but rather from the Railway Union, and kept them abreast of his efforts and legal strategies in relation to the now convicted "Gallego" Fernández, one of the instigators of the murder of Mariano. Locles' obvious purpose was to deform the projectile, which had the direct consequences of not only establishing the alleged rebound, but also allowing that deformation to make it difficult to determine the direction of the shot, because the side that was pounded was precisely the one bearing linear and parallel marks indicating the direction in which the said weapon was aimed by the shooter. Locles' intention in carrying out this criminal act was to underpin the ridiculous theory that Igounet tried to introduce: that the shot that killed Mariano was not only the product of a rebound, but that our comrade had also been the victim of "friendly fire". The comrades of the Partido Obrero (Workers Party) who were wounded that October 20 are now plaintiffs in the case against Locles, for whom a sentence of four years imprisonment, the maximum expected effective sentence for these cases, will be sought, as well as his disqualification for the maximum period provided by the Penal Code. The case of attempted bribery of the Court of Cassation (Superior Court) Susana Planas, childhood friend of Pedraza's wife, Graciela Coria, has just been charged in the case of attempted bribery of the Court of Cassation with the aim of achieving Pedraza's release during the trial for the murder of Mariano. Planas was legal representative for Belgrano Cargo (Belgrano Cargas) and the "cooperative" Mercosur Labor (Trabajo del Mercosur). In that case, as we know, charges were brought against Pedraza; the former agent of the Side (Secretaría de Inteligencia - Intelligence Secretariat), Juan Riquelme; Angel Stafforini, accountant for the Railway Union and on the board of Belgrano Cargo; former federal judge Octavio Araoz de Lamadrid, and Luis Escobar, an employee of the Criminal Chamber. Planas was charged for having accompanied Stafforini to deliver the $ 50,000 in cash to Araoz de Lamadrid's office, with the intention of his then making delivery of the bribes to Court of Cassation judges. Judge William Rongo, in charge of the case, has not departed from Judge Alberto Baños' decision, made when charges were brought against those first accused in the case, in the sense that knowledge of the intentions of the accused cannot be attributed to the judges who were to be bribed. However, transcripts of recordings, placed as evidence in the case, make it clear that Riquelme had repeated contacts with judge Eduardo Rafael Riggi and also spoke of the matter with members of the Railway Union. Recently, Gerardo "601" Martínez, Uocra (Construction workers union) capo and leader of the CGT-Balcarce (Balcarce General Federation of Labor Unions), was called to testify as a witness, because the transcripts established that Riquelme promised to talk to him in order to obtain housing for Riggi's son. So far there has been a desire to protect the judges involved in this issue. Of these, the main suspicion falls upon said Riggi, who is still Vice President of Division III of the Court of Cassation, since Riquelme, from home, spoke to Pedraza to inform him that he had met with the judge. A resolution which passed unnoticed One of the resolutions in the decision of the Oral Criminal Court 21, which ruled in the case of the murder of Mariano Ferreyra and attempted murder of Elsa Rodriguez and other comrades, ordered that the witness Alejandro Benitez be investigated. This Benitez is none other than the famous protected witness who was brought into the case via the Mayor of Quilmes, Francisco "Barba" Gutierrez, in an operation carried out under the personal supervision of [former Argentine President] Néstor Kirchner. Afterwards, as we know, the President would attribute all the merit of the investigation to the government, precisely because it had contributed that witness. Benitez was caught on camera in images taken by channel C5N when he arrived with the gang he was part of to attack the outsourced workers that October 20, 2010. He can be seen in the front row, running while smoking a cigarette, wearing a backpack, and dressed in a blue and white striped sweatshirt. A former boxer, Benitez worked in a Railway Union gym located at the Constitution train station. The man benefited from a special work routine thanks to the efforts made in his favor by Antonio Luna, former deputy secretary of Transportation. Benitez's testimony was one of several others that determined the guilt of the accused. Moreover, his statement coincided with that of other "repentant" members of the gang. He pointed out Cristian Favale as one of the shooters as well as the role played by Pablo Diaz at the scene of the crime. Now, OCD 21 has ordered that he be investigated as an alleged accomplice in the murder since a witness saw him as he was giving order together with the convicted Jorge Daniel Gonzalez. Benitez, according to this witness, was carrying an object that looked like a gun. As things stand, the witness provided by the government may well be one of the criminals. However, we are well aware that the defense attorneys, who had requested the annulment of Benítez' declaration and the cancellation of his testimony, will try to make use of this point. 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