characters "striking" of the church today. Von Wernich
Christian Federico Von Wernich (born May 27, 1938 in San Isidro, Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine priest of the Roman Catholic Church who served as chaplain of the Police Buenos Aires Province during the National Reorganization Process. Arrested in 2003 for his involvement in crimes against humanity in secret detention centers Basque Since, Coti Martinez and Pozo de Quilmes, was sentenced on October 9, 2007 to life imprisonment for those charges.
Von Wernich has denied the charges and maintained that although he visited detention centers he was committed there was no violation of human rights. However, Von Wernich is mentioned in several testimonies collected by the Nunca Más report of the National Commission on Disappeared Persons CONADEP incriminate him. Including a member of the police reports:
Descend the three bodies of former guerrillas who were then living. Throw them all three on the grass, the doctor applies them to two shots each, directly in the heart, with a reddish liquid was poison. Two die but the doctor gives the three as dead. They were loaded into a van and carried Brigade Avellaneda. Asearnos and went to change clothes because we were bloodstained. Von Wernich's father retired in another vehicle. Immediately we went to the police station where we waited for the Commissioner General Etchecolatz, Father Christian Von Wernich and all the panelists who participated in the operation. Von Wernich There the priest tells me about a special way by the impression that the incident had caused me, I said that what we did was necessary, it was a patriotic act and God I knew it was for the good of the country. These were his exact words ... (testimony of Julio Alberto Emmed, File No. 683)
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