Relatives of French victims of the Argentine dictatorship have condemned President Emmanuel Macron’s upcoming meeting with his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, arguing that the libertarian leader denies the crimes of the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

“Since he took office in December 2023, the far right president Javier Milei and his Vice President Victoria Villarruel, as well as several ministers and deputies of his party, have nurtured the intention to release convicted criminals,” said a communiqué published on Wednesday by the Association of the Families of French Desaparecidos in Argentina with the title “France does not forget.”

The press release was written after a group of libertarian deputies, spearheaded by Beltrán Benedit, visited convicted repressors in the Ezeiza federal prison on July 11.

Benedit called the trip a “humanitarian visit” and described the prisoners as “veterans........

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