POLICY

Two survivors recounted their captivity and torture in the La Plata Infantry Corps

A woman, then a teenager, and a union representative, recounted the harsh hardships suffered during the illegal captivity suffered during the last dictatorship.

  • 03/11/2023 • 08:25

A man and a woman who survived the last military dictatorship told the Federal Oral Court number 1 of La Plata about the kidnappings and torture suffered in the Infantry Corps of the Buenos Aires capital. They are Stella Maris Spósito, who was a 17-year-old teenager at the time of her kidnapping, and Irineo Mujica, union representative of a factory in Berazategui. Both testified before the TOF 1 of La Plata, which since last May has been trying 18 repressors for the crimes committed against 210 captive victims in the Infantry Corps of streets 1 and 60 of La Plata and the 8th police station. of the provincial capital. "It was May 28, 1976, I was 17 years old and I was at my house with my mother and my brother Hugo, in Ensenada, when they knocked on the door and shouted 'Open, Argentine Army'. And we opened," Spósito began to say. . The woman pointed out that hours before this break-in, Daniel - her boyfriend at the time - who was an officer in the 1st and 60th Infantry Corps had left her house, although during her story she did not want to involve him because she said "I really don't know what role occupied in my life. He explained that they were hooded and put on a truck where there were other people, among them "a young pregnant woman with a belly of about 9 months", whom he later saw at 1 and 60, and whom he learned was the wife of a worker from Astillero Río. Santiago. Spósito said that she was handcuffed to a bed and that at that moment her boyfriend appeared and told her "stay calm." The teenager was taken to a patio with her mother and photographed, after which she provided the name of several former police officers who worked in that police station, clarifying however that "women were taken care of by (police) women." In that sense, she narrated that many years later, after being released at the end of 1979, she got a job in a traditional clothing house in La Plata, "Casa Tía" and on one occasion she was approached by "a dark-skinned woman with short hair who He said 'don't you know me'". Spósito told her no, and the woman proposed: "Close your eyes and listen to my voice," but still the survivor said she did not remember. "What I want you to know is that I had nothing to do with it, I was there because I was at work," that woman told him and walked away. The witness said that one night "they took my mother and me and put us on a truck, taking us to a place where they tortured us and applied electric shocks to us."