Two policemen who were accused of participating in the state terror plan of the last military dictatorship by deliberately covering up the finding of the body of a death flight victim were acquitted on Monday by La Plata Federal Judge Alejo Ramos Padilla. The plaintiff rejected the decision, describing it as a “juridical abhorrence.”

The trial, which began on July 7, investigated former deputy police chief Moisés D’Elía and Julio César Morazzo, who worked as an officer at a local station. They were accused of a cover-up and breaching the duties as public officials for failing to inform judicial authorities of the finding and identification of Rosa Novillo Corvalán’s body in 1976. 

They were under suspicion for having carried out actions linked to crimes against humanity, which does not have a statute of limitations in Argentina. Prosecutor Ana Oberlín had requested a three year sentence for each of them.

Corvalán’s body washed ashore at the coastline of Punta Indio, Buenos Aires province, on December 6, 1976. Morazzo and D’Elía were in charge of carrying........

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