One Supervillain blows up a city to cover up a crime. It looks like a review of another movie by Marvel. But the argument has too many similarities with one of the most abominable events in Argentine history: the blowing up of the Río Tercero Military Factory.
In each commemoration of that fateful November 3, the testimonies of the survivors who ask for justice are repeated. But until now no one had ever been able to enter the Factory. Today, 26 years after the catastrophe, with the cameras of Telenoche we were able to access the property and what we discovered there completes the circle of horror lived in 1995.
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The story is as simple as evil is often. In the ’90s the government of the president Carlos Menem illegally sold weapons to Ecuador and Croatia. An international control could discover the maneuver at any time. With prison logic and to cover up the crime, the political and military leaders decided to do disappear evidence. This is how they decided to blow up the factory. Of one. Without any evidence, international controls were going to be impractical. This tragedy is as simple and as disgusting as that.
As a consequence of this criminal strategy On November 3, 1995 at 8:55 a.m., the Military Factory flew through the air. The explosion it also devastated the city of Río Tercero which was located just 200 meters away. There were a total of 3 explosions that generated the stampede of the 45 thousand inhabitants of the place.
Like a true bombardment in the middle of a war in peacetime, 30 thousand projectiles hit the city and made 4 whole blocks disappear. 7 people died and more than 300 were injured
Justice discovered that, as if it were easy, the night before the explosion, individuals who were not from the regiment entered the facilities. It is speculated that the reason for his presence there was place detonators and boosters so that the next morning ammunition and 200 TNT tanks fly through the air. There are other indications that speak of an organized plan: the previous night the Factory authorities prohibited parking cars in the surrounding streets, and The previous week the director and the deputy director left the place: they traveled to Buenos Aires.
Twenty years after the fact four directors of Fabricaciones Militares were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for “willful havoc aggravated by the death of persons.” It was about 4 parsley. For what reason would four employees, three of them engineers, want to blow up a city? We go a little further: a simple logical operation makes us think that the motive for the crime (the disappearance of the evidence) is in the interest of those who can really benefit from the crime.
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On the same day of the attack, President Carlos Menem flew to Río Tercero and at 5:00 p.m. he gave a press conference. He carried a very clear message and admonition to journalists. Menem said emphatically that the explosion was “From an accident and not from an attack. You, “he told the journalists gathered there,” have an obligation to spread this word. Do not enter to doubt what we are saying”.
However, in the court case, ostensible suspicions were hinted that they tried to put Menem on the defendant’s bench. In those years the power of Menem still made itself felt and Justice had twists and turns: He sentenced the former president to seven years in prison, but never signed the sentence. This last circumstance allowed that with the simple passage of time the cause finally prescribed. One of lime and one of sand. It went as far as it could.
The last threat of the Tribunal was summon the former president to testify on February 24, 2021. But 10 days before the appointment, Menem died, a circumstance that forever closed the possibility of the victims and their families obtaining justice. The judges determined that the blasting was an “intentional, scheduled and organized” event, but could not define by whom. Determinant omission that makes the difference between doing and not doing justice.
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