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| |  | | Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri | | | judgement place : | Argentina  | | status : | Acquitted | | particulars : | Acquitted in 1985 at the trial of the military junta, but later proceeded against for human rights violations | | position : | Commander in Chief of the Army, then President of the Republic |
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| | | | After the fall of the military junta, Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri together with others in positions of responsibility during the dictatorship, was indicted and put on trial.
His trial - and that of the overall military junta - opened on 22 April 1985. Galtieri was indicted for numerous human rights violations. Nevertheless on 9 December 1985, at the outcome of the trial he was acquitted.
In may 1986, however, he was charged with incompetence concerning the invasion of the Falkland Islands and the subsequent war with Great Britain. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In November 1988, the verdict was confirmed on appeal. Galtieri was then put under arrest and stripped of his rank. After five years in prison he gained the benefit of a reduced sentence on the part of President Carlos Menem.
In 2002, a federal judge ordered the provisional arrest of General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and 25 former members of the armed forces as well as the freezing of their assets. They were accused of responsibility in the abduction, illegal detention, torture, “disappearance” and murder in 1978 and 1980, of around twenty members of an armed group of Monteneros. In his decision, the judge affirmed that the amnesty laws known as «final point» and «due obedience», which had prevented investigations into the thousands of “disappearances” at the end of the seventies and early eighties, were unconstitutional and thereby considered as null and void.
However, Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri died on 12 January 2003, before it was possible to put him on trial for the above allegations. | |    | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Argentina | | | date of birth : | | | 15.07.1926 | | | judgement period : | | | 22.04.1985 - 09.12.1985 | | | charges : | | | Other | | | profile last modified : | | | 13.12.2006 |
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