  |  | | Audiencia Nacional - Decision (Spanish)
20 December 2006 (doc) | | | Auto solicitando la extradición de Ricardo Miguel Cavallo
Acte sollicitant l'extradition de R. Cavallo, Madrid, le 12 septembre 2000 (espagnol);
Act demanding the extradition of R. Cavallo, Madrid, 12 September 2000 (spanish);
Auslieferungsantrag, Madrid, 12. September 2000 (spanisch) | | | Cavallo denies the charges
BBC Video (realplayer) | | | El Gobierno autoriza la extradición a Argentina del represor Ricardo Miguel Cavallo
El Mundo, 29 de febrero 2008 | | | Supreme Court of Mexico: Decision On The Extradition Of Miguel Cavallo
Legal paper | | | TEXTO DE LAS CONCLUSIONES DEL JUEZ NATURAL SOBRE LA POSIBLE EXTRADICION DE MIGUEL ANGEL CAVALLO A ESPAÑA
Mexican Decision on Extradition, Décision mexicaine sur l'extradition (espagnol), Mexikanischer Auslieferungsentscheid (spanisch)
12 January 2001 | | | Zoom Cavallo, un criminel extradé
L'humanité, 6 février 2001 |
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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 1999, Judge Baltasar Garzón (Madrid, Spain) initiated a legal procedure against Ricardo Miguel Cavallo and 98 other Argentine officers. Judge Garzón then formally requested Ricardo Miguel Cavallo’s extradition from Mexico for genocide, terrorism and torture.
Alerted by the disclosure of his real identity in a Mexican paper, Ricardo Miguel Cavallo tried to escape to Argentine, where he could not be tried thanks to the application of the amnesty acts, referred to as «final point» and «due obedience», which were passed to appease the armed forces. He was arrested by the Mexican authorities at the Cancun airport (in Yucatan, Mexico) on August 24 2000.
Subsequently, Cavallo contested the extradition request, which was drawn up on September 12 2000 by Judge Garzón (see links). After nearly three years of procedures, the Mexican Supreme Court (see links) found on June 10 2003 that the extradition treaty of 1978 between Spain and Mexico and its protocol were legitimately ratified by the Mexican authorities and did not violate any of the Mexican Constitution’s dispositions. In addition, the Supreme Court stipulated that the ratification of the 1948 Convention against Genocide did not violate either the principle of self-determination or the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of a foreign state, which are inscribed in the Mexican constitution.
The Mexican Supreme Court assented to Cavallo’s extradition related to the charges of terrorism and genocide. However, it refused to include the charge of torture, because under Mexican law, the crimes of torture committed by Cavallo were subject to prescription.
Cavallo was put on board a plane belonging to the Spanish Air Force on Saturday, 28 June 2003 to be extradited and tried in Spain.
On 11 January 2006, Spanish prosecutor Dolores Delgado has formally accused Cavallo of genocide, organised terrorism, crimes against humanity and murder.
The Prosecutor asked for a prison sentence of between 13'000 and 17'000 years, but if convicted, Cavallo would only have to serve the maximum sentence under Spanish law of 30 years.
The trial was expected to take place in late 2007 to give the defence lawyers time to prepare.
On 20 December 2006, a Spanish High Court decided it had no jurisdichtion over Cavallo. Spain's High Court said it would invite Argentina to apply for his extradition. This decision was appealed before the Supreme Court of Spain
On 29 January 2007, Cavallo had to be released due to the expiry of a 40-day time limit in the course of which an Argentinian extradition order should have arrived in Spain. The following day - the extradition order having finally arrived - he was arrested again.
On 17 July 2007 the Spanish Supreme Court annulled the ruling by the Spanish High court and held that Cavallo should remain in Spain to be tried, instead of being extradited to Argentina.
On 28 February however, the Spanish government authorized his extradition to Argentina.
The decision was taken after the Mexican authorities had approved his re-extradition to Argentina.
Cavallo was extradited to Argentina on 31 March 2008. He was handed over to Argentinian officials after the Third Section of the Spanish Criminal Court officially closed the case against him to enable his trial in Argentina. | |    | | 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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