Monday, December 06, 2021 | 6:03 a.m.
The future proceedings of the thirteen police officers accused of the murder of Hugo Miguel Wasyluk (38), whose body was found in one of the cells of the First Section of Oberá in the first minutes of April 27, 2011, will begin to be defined today.
As provided by the Criminal Court One of Oberá, the complaint and the civil actors representing the interests of the victim’s next of kin will be the first to present their respective arguments.
The start of the seventh hearing is scheduled for 8.30 in the events room of the Oberá Tennis Club (OTC), located in San Luis and Beruti, in this city.
Rafael Pereyra Pigerl and María Vannela Vignolles are plaintiffs on behalf of Bárbara Chitouski and Lucas Wasyluk, the mother and son of the victim. Meanwhile, also for the bereaved, Héctor Rubén Sánchez and Luciano Wall act as civil actors.
The file is labeled “torture followed by death, failure to report and failure to comply with the duties of a public official.”
At the time of the incident, the defendants were working at the Villa Bonita Police Station and the First Section of Oberá. They all came to the debate at liberty.
The highest accusation weighs on former sergeant Pedro De Mattos (48), former corporal Carlos Antonio Gómez (33) and former agent Ricardo Javier Rodríguez (37), accused of torture followed by death, a crime that includes the sentence of life imprisonment.
Sub-officer Jorge Antonio Heijo and Chief Warrant Officer Wilson Ricardo González are indicted for failure to report and breach of the duties of a public official.
Only one abstained
Meanwhile, the police doctor José Orlando Morales is accused of breach of the duties of a public official since he did not check the victim properly.
The same degree of responsibility reaches Miguel Ángel Espíndola, who was head of the First Section, as well as the personnel under his charge: Hugo Ariel Basaraba, Carlos Ariel Lentini, Roxana Andrea Harasimezuk, Alejandro Fabián Núñez, Luis Alberto Silva and Gustavo Javier Fontana.
Of all the accused, only Morales abstained from testifying before the Court chaired by Francisco Aguirre, who is seconded by José Pablo Rivero and Jorge Villalba.
Last Thursday, the forensic expert Horacio Marín detailed the injuries that led to the death of the victim and explained that he had no possibility of defending himself and was handcuffed when he was subjected to a brutal beating.
The doctor Lein Hung Kuo, who treated Wasyluk on the afternoon of April 25, also testified, confirming that he had no injuries before his arrest in the evening.
“Two sessions of torture”
The complaint has the advice of the medical expert Hugo Mitoire, who determined that “it is very clear and proven that in the Villa Bonita police station he was beaten with cahiporras, tonfas, kicks and punches, and then he was crushed by sitting down and jumping on him – leaving the indelible imprint of the splinting on the floor of the truck-, and thus, compressing his chest and abdomen to the extreme against the floor of the truck ”.
“As the autopsy indicates, he was made to sit down afterwards – always handcuffed – and he was hyperflexed in an extreme way: making his head touch almost against the floor between his two legs. In addition to all the trauma already suffered, this, the hyperflexion, had a decisive impact on his internal organs, affecting the vitality of his intestines, since the forced and inhuman position to which he was subjected ”, he added.
According to Mitoire, in the First Section there was “a second torture session, this one, longer, without blows or pressure, but continuous, progressive and inexorably fatal.”
“In this second dependency, the victim began to agonize from his admission, because he already had his internal viscera destroyed, with a paralyzed intestine and severe bleeding, in addition to the blows to all parts of the body. This second torture session lasted about 27 hours, exactly until the moment of his death, because feeling bad and decomposed, he asked to be treated (…) However, the agents and superiors on duty or in charge, ignored or they belittled it, others belittled it ”.
In figures
27
As recontructed in the investigation and the different days of trial, the victim agonized 27 hours until he died in the cell.
