Overview
- Federal judges in Rosario cleared 17 defendants over the 1975–76 repression in Villa Constitución, including two former Acindar executives for whom prosecutors sought life sentences.
- Tribunal president Germán Sutter Schneider dissented, classifying a set of detentions and killings as crimes against humanity and proposing prison terms of six and eight years for specific defendants.
- Prosecutors and victims’ lawyers said they will appeal to the Federal Court of Cassation, with strategies to hinge on the written rationale scheduled for publication on February 6, 2026.
- The majority rejected declaring state-of-siege decrees unconstitutional and declined to recognize Acindar’s on-site dormitory as a clandestine detention center.
- The case examined the occupation of Villa Constitución beginning March 20, 1975, and allegations of kidnappings, torture and killings targeting metalworkers and UOM ‘lista Marrón’ militants.