Chicha Mariani's declarations at Court

 

During her testimony in the case that hears humanity crimes committed at clandestine centers of detention within the so called “Camps Circuit”, Chicha Mariani said the Director of the daily La Prensa witnessed the attack of her child’s home.

 

Máximo Gainza Castro, witnessed the attack carried out in the city of La Plata where Diana Teruggi was murdered in 1976, together with other militants and Clara Anahí Mariani, her daughter, who was kidnapped and remains disappeared till to day.

 

María Isabel "Chicha" Chorobick de Mariani so affirmed before the Federal Court that hears the case against 26 repressors who acted in clandestine centres of detention during the last military dictatorship under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Police Force, known as “Camp Circuit”, a reference to the last name of the Forces’ Head at the time, Ramón Camps.

 

She stated that on “Nov 24, 1976, during the repressive operation carried by the Police and Military Forces against her daughter-in-law and her son’s house, Diana and Daniel Mariani respectively, on 30th str between 55 and 56th in the city of La Plata, La Prensa daily director, Maximo Gainza Castro was present.

 

She added that “time later, during a meeting of the Armed Forces Supreme Council, repressor Ramon Camps, ratified that during the attack against the house, Gainza Castro had been present, but added that he ignored what the journalist was doing there.

 

The presence of Gainza during the attack that left 5 people dead and the disappearance of a three-month-old baby, was revealed only yesterday for the first time by Mariani, almost at the end of her four-hour testimony during the Court hearing.

 

Mariani, founder of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Clara Anahí foundation devoted to the search of her granddaughter, held that she waited for 35 years to give her testimony against the “Camps Circuit”.

 

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