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| |  | | Ricardo Miguel Cavallo | | | judgement place : | Argentina  | | status : | Indicted | | particulars : | Extradited from Mexico to Spain on 28 June 2003; charged in Spain with genocide and terrorism; extradited for trial in Argentina on 31 March 2008 | | position : | Officer (Captain of a Corvette) |
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| | | | In 1976, this navy officer integrated the Esma (High school for mechanics of the Argentine army) in the activity group 332 which specialised in interrogations, torture and “flights of death”, during which opponents to the regime were thrown either from a helicopter into the Rio de la Plata or from an airplane flying off the coastline. The school’s elegant building, situated on one of Buenos Aires’ most opulent avenues, was the nerve centre for the repression of thousands of students, teachers, lawyers or trade union members between 1976 and 1983.
According to a 1984 report of the Argentine Truth Commission, 8961 individuals disappeared during that period of time. Numerous NGO reports claim that 30000 individuals disappeared and that 9000 persons were tortured.
According to Judge Garzón, Ricardo Miguel Cavallo is accused of having participated in 227 kidnappings and acts of torture concerning 110 people, as well as in the kidnapping of 16 babies who had been removed from their mothers who were in prison. The Judge’s investigation also mentions the cases of 248 individuals who had been arrested, detained and finally freed.
The French justice for its part opened up the files on the disappearance of 15 French citizens, including those of the Léonie Duquet and Alice Domont sisters in 1977, when Cavallo presided the ESMA. At the time these files were opened, Cavallo was living under a false identity in Mexico.
After being Argentina’s military attaché in Paris for three years, Ricardo Miguel Cavallo settled in Mexico in 1984, where he managed the office for vehicle immatriculations. When the last military junta fell in 1986, Cavallo retired from the army and redirected his career to the world of business. In October 1999 he obtained both a residence and a work permit in Mexico.
Arrested and detained by the Mexican authorities since 24 August 2000, Cavallo was put on board a plane belonging to the Spanish Air Force and extradited to Spain on 28 June 2003. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Miguel Angel Cavallo, alias 'Sérpico', Angel of Death | | | last time seen : | | | Argentina | | | charges : | | | Genocide
Torture | | | profile last modified : | | | 01.04.2008 |
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