Dictatorship torturer 'Turco' Julian dies in prison

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Dictatorship torturer ‘Turco’ Julian dies in prison

Buenos Aires Herald Buenos Aires Herald
5 days ago



Julio Simón, an infamous torturer of the last civic-military dictatorship known as “Turco Julián,” died on Tuesday at the age of 84. He was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity in Unit #34 of the Federal Penitentiary Service, located in Campo de Mayo.

A Federal Police officer, Simón was one of the most vicious torturers at “El Olimpo” death camp in the Floresta neighborhood of Buenos Aires City. According to victims’ testimonies, Simón used to welcome the detained clad in a Nazi armband. … Simón was also one of the first dictatorship torturers to be prosecuted after the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws that protected him were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2005.

In 2006, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1978 kidnapping, torture, and enforced disappearance of José Poblete and Gertrudis Hlaczik, and the kidnapping of their eight-month-old daughter, Claudia, who was later illegally adopted by a military intelligence officer and his wife. Claudia’s identity was restored in February 2000, and she is now a board member of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

“The general criterion was to kill everyone,” the torturer stated in a TV interview back in 1995. He also said that he would do everything he did during the dictatorship all over again.

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[GiqueCee]

1. "... he would do everything he did during the dictatorship all over again..."

... His own words are proof that you cannot rehabilitate a psychopath. So you can forget about Musk ever turning over a new leaf.