The AN studies the extradition of a doctor accused of participating in torture during the Uruguayan dictatorship

MADRID, 8 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Court (AN) will study this Wednesday the extradition to Uruguay of Carlos S.F., who was a doctor of the Mechanized Cavalry Regiment number 6 and who, according to the South American country, would have participated in torture between 1972 and 1975, within the framework of the Uruguayan dictatorship.

In the document by which the Prosecutor's Office is interested in his handing over, collected by Europa Press, the defendant is listed as an adviser to the interrogators of the Anti-subversive Operations Coordinating Body (OCOA) who, through physical coercion, would have obtained testimonies from the detainees in the framework of an operation against the PCR.

"As a consequence of the confessions obtained through the use of violence, sentences were obtained from those interrogated and from third parties," explains the Public Ministry, which indicates that, according to the documentation sent by Uruguay, the number of those affected by torture would be nine. .

One of them "stated that when she was detained in Regiment number 6 she was always hooded." Her claimant would have assured her that she was not pregnant even though she was and would have made her sign a document threatening that if he did not do so, he would torture her again.

Stripped and tied by the ankles with wire, they allegedly applied "the cattle prod and threatened to burn her with acid or shoot her." "As a consequence of the torture, she suffered the beginning of gastritis, she has amenorrhea and nightmares," describes the Prosecutor's Office.

Another of those allegedly tortured explained that when he was detained they beat him, handcuffed him, hooded him and applied an electric baton to him while his legs and hands were handcuffed, applying electric shocks while wet. According to his account, the defendant was present at those sessions and advised the material authors.

A person affected by the alleged torture who would have been subjected to what is known as the "dry submarine" -- a plastic hood tightened around the neck -- also pointed to the defendant. Another tortured woman, for her part, described how she was tortured in front of her husband and how her pregnancy was used as an element of psychological coercion.

The Prosecutor's Office explains that the facts constitute, according to Uruguayan legislation, a crime against humanity, a crime of abuse of authority against detainees, a crime of serious injuries and a crime of deprivation of liberty.