Criminal judge Silvia Urioste announced the conviction for this crime, committed in the La Tablada detention and torture center on the outskirts of this capital.
Tassino was arrested at his home on July 19, 1977, during an operation carried out by Eduardo Ferro along with two other soldiers.
Several detainees at La Tablada identified Captain Ferro as the perpetrator of the torture that led to the death of the still-missing PCU fighter.
The verdict included the testimonies of about 15 victims of state terrorism and several soldiers.
The recent technical report of the Human Rights Secretariat’s Truth and Justice Working Group indicates that Ferro was a member of the Anti-Subversive Operations Coordinating Body (OCOA) that commanded La Tablada in 1974 and 1975.
Between 1975 and 1976 he was also a liaison with OCOA and was part of one of the teams that carried out Operation Morgan, in which hundreds of PCU and Union of Communist Youth militants were arrested and tortured.
In 1977, he worked as an instructor at the Intelligence School, “due to his extensive experience in operations to arrest militants of banned organizations”, as recorded in his personnel file, and the training he received abroad.
Ferro escaped Uruguayan justice in March 2017 in the same case he was now convicted of after being extradited from Spain.
The Iberian country must react if it accepts the ex-soldier being tried for other crimes he is accused of.
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