The Federal Oral Court of General Roca in Argentina sentenced Wednesday the prefects involved in the murder of young Mapuche Rafael Nahuel, who was attacked during a police operation on November 25, 2017.
Said court on Wednesday sentenced the five prefects who were involved in the death of Rafael Nahuel, the 22-year-old Mapuche youth, to sentences of four and a half and five years in prison.
Six years later, the entity sentenced prefect Sergio Cavia, author of the shooting, to five years in prison for the crime of “aggravated homicide committed in excess of legitimate self-defense”.
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The prefects Francisco Javier Pintos, Juan Ramón Obregón, Carlos Valentín Sosa and Sergio García received sentences of four and a half years as they were considered necessary participants in the murder of Nahuel during “a special operation” of the Albatros Group, carried out in 2017 in the Mapuche community Lafken Winkul Mapu, in the locality of Villa Mascardi, located in the department of Bariloche.
After more than a year of court hearings, the court has announced its verdict in a hearing, where in addition to the sentences issued, the five convicted were also handed a seven-year disqualification from holding public office.
“We are not happy with the ruling but we value that there was a conviction, the court considered that the five committed a crime, and we must remember that the political authority at that time had vindicated their actions, that same person (Patricia Bullrich) will be the official of the area as of December 10, so they were defending five criminals”, shared the lawyer Mariano Przybylski, plaintiff of the Secretariat of Human Rights.
In this sense, Patricia Bullrich had stated on that occasion that the authorities had acted legally and legitimately.
For her part, Nahuel’s mother, Graciela Salvo expressed that “justice is making fun of the family, they do not feel our pain, the prefects are going to continue free as if nothing had happened, they did not even come to show their faces after having entered the community and having shot my son, Rafael Nahuel, in the back, as a mother I will continue asking for justice because we are not satisfied with the sentence given to the Albatros”.
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Not even to hear the verdict did the five members of the Albatros Group of the Argentine Naval Prefecture show up in person at the hearing. Sergio Cavia, Francisco Javier Pintos, Juan Ramón Obregón, Carlos Valentín Sosa and Sergio García were present remotely, as was the case throughout the trial.
Rafael Nahuel’s family, represented by attorneys Rubén Marigo and Ezequiel Palavecino, had requested that the aggravation for “racial hatred” be added to the case and that it be considered a case of “institutional violence comparable to State terrorism”.
The 22-year-old Mapuche young man was killed from behind during the pursuit with firearms of the Albatros of the Prefecture, on November 25, 2017, two days after the violent eviction of his community Lafken Winkul Mapu of Villa Mascardi, in the framework of a case initiated by National Parks for usurpation.
The new truce plan in Gaza includes “many demands” from Hamas, according to an Egyptian source
The talks held between delegations from Egypt and Israel in Tel Aviv for a truce in Gaza were “largely positive and successful” and included “many of the demands” of the Islamist movement Hamas, an Egyptian security source familiar with the negotiations and another from Hamas reported to EFE on Sunday.
A delegation from Hamas, headed by the member of the political bureau Khalil al-The Hague, is expected to arrive tomorrow in Cairo, mediator in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group, to deliver its response to the mediators, according to the Egyptian source, which asked not to be identified by the sensitivity of this issue.
This new proposal, on whose content it did not provide details, “overcomes the obstacles that hinder” the declaration of a truce, a ceasefire, the exchange of prisoners and hostages, as well as the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip.
The possible announcement of a truce “will contribute to the approval of a first phase and to the efforts of the entire international community to consolidate this ceasefire and seek to move to a permanent truce instead of a temporary one,” according to the informant.
On the other hand, a source of the Palestinian Islamist movement, which also asked for anonymity, confirmed to EFE that tomorrow a delegation from Hamas will arrive in the Egyptian capital to present its response to the new Israeli proposal.
The informant added that the proposal includes “reducing the minimum number of kidnapped that Hamas will commit to freeing and eliminating divisions in sections of the Gaza Strip.”
Last Friday, an Egyptian mediating delegation traveled to Tel Aviv to discuss this truce with Israel, while the Jewish State has warned that it will not allow the Palestinian group to delay and has once again threatened to invade Rafah, at the southern end of the strip and where more than a million refugees are overcrowded.
Hamas warns the United Kingdom that if it sends soldiers to Gaza they will be a “legitimate” military target
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas warned the United Kingdom on Sunday that if it deploys military personnel in the Gaza Strip, after information that they could help in the distribution of humanitarian aid, they will be “legitimate targets” of its armed wing.
“We alert Britain, or any other country, against the deployment of forces on land or on the coast of the Gaza Strip and affirm that they will be legitimate targets for our people and their resistance,” Hamas said in a statement.
The armed group charged against any initiative in the Palestinian enclave that does not have its approval.
The Islamist group responded to the information released on Saturday by the British network BBC, according to which the British Armed Forces could deploy troops to deliver humanitarian aid on the ground arriving in Gaza through the new floating dock that is being built by Israel and the United States.
The public broadcaster indicated that the United Kingdom could be the intermediary to which the United States referred when it said that it would not be the American soldiers, but others, who would distribute the food packages sent by ship from Cyprus and then transferred to Gaza.
Yesterday, the Israeli Army assured at a press conference with international media that international organizations would be in charge of the distribution of humanitarian aid, but did not indicate which ones would have agreed to collaborate.
Although the British Government has not confirmed the news, the BBC affirms, according to anonymous sources, that the Ministry of Defense is considering getting involved with ‘wet boots’ on the ground.
The possible role of the British forces would involve driving the trucks with the help from the landing boats on the floating runway, hundreds of meters long, and delivering it to a safe distribution area on dry land, the station explained.
The London Ministry of Defense reported on Friday, in turn, that the British Navy auxiliary ship RFA Cardigan Bay set sail from Cyprus to provide support for the construction of the temporary dock, which is led by the United States.
This ship will provide accommodation for hundreds of American sailors and soldiers, about whom Washington has made it clear that they will not set foot in Gaza territory.
Nancy Pelosi says that Netanyahu “could not have made things worse” in Gaza
Former President of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, “could not have made things worse” in the conflict in Gaza, in an interview broadcast this Sunday by the BBC.
Pelosi, who on Thursday participated in an event at the English university of Oxford, told the ‘Laura Kuenssberg Program’ that Netanyahu “was never a peace agent” and admitted that she “is not a great fan of his.”
The congresswoman said that what is happening in the Strip “challenges the conscience of the world” and maintained that the impact of famine on children “is almost unforgivable”, while calling the Hamas attack on Israeli territory on October 7 “barbaric”.
“Israel has the right to defend itself, but the way it is doing it is a challenge because Netanyahu has never been a peace agent,” he said.
“I’m not a great admirer of yours; I couldn’t have done things worse than those tens of thousands, or whatever number it is, of dead people, malnourished children and the uncertainty that exists… and that’s what people are talking about,” he said.
Asked if she understood why young people in the United States used controversial tactics when protesting against the conflict, Pelosi opined that “when they go beyond the campuses and block the Golden Gate Bridge, or something else, for a long time, and people can’t go to the doctor or the hospital or anything urgent in their lives, they don’t get support.”
But he added: “How can demonstrations on (university) campuses be criticized? That’s a way of life in the United States.”
On Thursday, the British police evicted two pro-Palestinian protesters who protested during their speech on populism to students from the University of Oxford, while abroad another group criticized her for her defense of Israel and her position on the movement to support Palestine.
