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April 20th, 2005

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How long do you expect him to live?

Sentenced to 640 years in prison.
MercoPress

A former Argentine navy officer who admitted to participating in “death flights,”Â? in which naked detainees were thrown from planes during the country’s military dictatorship, was convicted yesterday by a Spanish court of committing crimes against humanity.

A three-judge panel said Adolfo Scilingo, 58, took an active part in the “dirty war”Â? drive to crush leftist dissent during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. His trial was Spain’s first under a law which says crimes against humanity can be tried in this country — even if they are alleged to have been committed elsewhere.

Prosecutors had sought a jail term of 9,138 years…

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Plunge
April 20, 2005
11:45 pm
Yeah, but he might be out in 200 years or so with good behavior! :-)
ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » European Jurisprudence is INSANE
July 20, 2005
1:54 am
[...] ...but not the first time for the EU, as we have recently seen in Spain, where courts have tried to exert jurisdiction over Pinochet (and have successfuly imprisoned others involved in his regime). And in 2003, left-wing groups unsuccessfully tried to bring war crimes charges against Donald Rumsfeld and Tommy Franks in Belgium and Germany. [...]