The Rome Criminal Court sentenced former Uruguayan officer Jorge Tróccoli to life imprisonment , found guilty of " torture, disappearances and murders " committed during the military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973-1985), as part of Plan Condor , the network of repressive coordination between military governments of the Southern Cone under direct supervision of the US.
According to the newspaper La Stampa , Tróccoli, 78 years old and former head of the Intelligence Service (S2) of the Naval Rifle Corps (Fusna), was sentenced again last Tuesday, despite having already served another life sentence since 2021 for the disappearance of 21 people.
This time, the Italian justice system found him guilty of the murder of Rafaela Filipazzi, José Agustín Potenza and Elena Quinteros , which occurred between 1976 and 1977.
The Filipazzi and Potenza couple, both Argentine citizens, were kidnapped in Montevideo on May 27, 1977 , taken to the Fusna facilities under Tróccoli's control and then handed over to agents of the Paraguayan dictatorship , within the framework of the prisoner exchange of Plan Cóndor.
His remains were found in Asunción in 2013 , while Quinteros' whereabouts remain unknown.
The verdict was handed down at Rebibbia prison , where the former officer is serving his previous sentence. During the trial, prosecutor Erminio Amelio warned: “ You can't expect to be considered equal to the victims. There are those who were on the wrong side of history and those who were on the right side .”
Attorney Arturo Salerni , representing the victims, emphasized that the verdict reaffirms the principle of universal justice. “ This important ruling tells us that memory and justice cannot be forgotten ,” he declared.
For her part, lawyer Alessia Merluzzi , representing the Uruguayan State, stated that the decision "makes up for lost time during all these years of impunity" and restores " fundamental values against dehumanization and violence ."
Tróccoli, who sought refuge in Italy in 2007 using his dual nationality to evade Uruguayan justice, was located and arrested in the coastal town of Marina di Camerota , in the Campania region.
Italian court documents link him to at least 27 victims of kidnapping, torture, and murder , in cooperation with the authoritarian governments of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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Italy ratifies life sentence for former Uruguayan official complicit in Condor Operation
https://www.telesurtv.net/italia-ratifica-condena-exoficial-plan-condor/The Rome Criminal Court sentenced former Uruguayan officer Jorge Tróccoli to life imprisonment , found guilty of " torture, disappearances and murders " committed during the military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973-1985), as part of Plan Condor , the network of repressive coordination between military governments of the Southern Cone under direct supervision of the US.
According to the newspaper La Stampa , Tróccoli, 78 years old and former head of the Intelligence Service (S2) of the Naval Rifle Corps (Fusna), was sentenced again last Tuesday, despite having already served another life sentence since 2021 for the disappearance of 21 people.
This time, the Italian justice system found him guilty of the murder of Rafaela Filipazzi, José Agustín Potenza and Elena Quinteros , which occurred between 1976 and 1977.
The Filipazzi and Potenza couple, both Argentine citizens, were kidnapped in Montevideo on May 27, 1977 , taken to the Fusna facilities under Tróccoli's control and then handed over to agents of the Paraguayan dictatorship , within the framework of the prisoner exchange of Plan Cóndor.
His remains were found in Asunción in 2013 , while Quinteros' whereabouts remain unknown.
The verdict was handed down at Rebibbia prison , where the former officer is serving his previous sentence. During the trial, prosecutor Erminio Amelio warned: “ You can't expect to be considered equal to the victims. There are those who were on the wrong side of history and those who were on the right side .”
Attorney Arturo Salerni , representing the victims, emphasized that the verdict reaffirms the principle of universal justice. “ This important ruling tells us that memory and justice cannot be forgotten ,” he declared.
For her part, lawyer Alessia Merluzzi , representing the Uruguayan State, stated that the decision "makes up for lost time during all these years of impunity" and restores " fundamental values against dehumanization and violence ."
Tróccoli, who sought refuge in Italy in 2007 using his dual nationality to evade Uruguayan justice, was located and arrested in the coastal town of Marina di Camerota , in the Campania region.
Italian court documents link him to at least 27 victims of kidnapping, torture, and murder , in cooperation with the authoritarian governments of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.