They ordered Mario Firmenich's inquiry into the Montoneros attack in the police canteen during the dictatorship.

After years hiding their losses, despised by human rights bodies, invisible by successive governments, the relatives celebrated the decision of the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber.

This Thursday morning the Argentine Justice has taken the decision to reopen the cause of an attack that occurred almost 50 years ago and that, at the time, was attributed to the guerrilla organization Montoneros . The head of the organization, who resides in Spain since then, will be summoned to give an inquiring statement. Hours ago, the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation confirmed that it declared «imprescriptible» an attack committed in 1…

A ruling of the Appeals Chamber marked a historic turn this Thursday in the cases of crimes committed by guerrilla groups in the 1970s, which until now were considered to have been prescribed for ordinary crimes. The court ordered the reopening of the criminal investigation for the attack on a federal police canteen on 2 July 1976, which killed 24 people and injured in some 60. The decision of the magistrates coincides with the position put forw…

Section I of the Federal Chamber of Justice quashed the statute of limitations for the offence of the attack on the Federal Police Coordination Board on 2 July 1976, which resulted in 24 deaths and ordered that an investigation be reopened by Judge María Servini. In addition, the court ordered that Mario Firmenich, who is identified as the leader of the Montoneros group, who is the driving force behind the attack, be summoned to the inquiry, so …

The decision was taken by the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires, which declared that the massacre constituted a “serious violation of human rights.” In addition, it revoked dismissals ordered by statute of limitations.

In a turn to the case law established so far, the ruling held that this massacre is not prescribed: it was a serious violation of human rights and the Argentine State has the obligation to respond to its victims. “The event was never even minimally investigated by the State”, it was warned. “Repairing the rights of the first victims of the attack and, at the same time, protecting those of the others who are now brought before the courts of justi…