Jorge Eduardo Acosta
Jorge Eduardo Acosta (born 27 May 1941), alias "el Tigre" ("The Tiger") is an Argentine
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Azucena Villaflor, Esther Ballestrino and María Ponce, as well as of the death of the Swedish-Argentine teenager Dagmar Hagelin and of Argentine journalist and fiction writer Rodolfo Walsh. [1]
In total, he is accused of approximately 80 crimes.
Biography
Jorge Acosta travelled in 1981 to
desaparecidos".[2]
He was amnestied under the ESMA case, in which Jorge Eduardo Acosta is to be judged along with Alfredo Astiz and Adolfo Miguel Donda.[3]
He is also accused in Italy for crimes committed during the dictatorship against Italian citizens.[4][5]
He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Argentinian court on October 26, 2011.[6]
He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by an Argentinian court on July 5, 2012, for the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners.[7]
References
- ^ Condenaron a prisión perpetua a Alfredo Astiz y a Jorge “El Tigre” Acosta por crímenes cometidos en la ESMA, Centro de Información Judicial, 26 October 2011
- ^ Acosta, Desaparecidos
- Página/12, 22 August 2006 (in Spanish)
- ^ Por el asesinato de una italoargentina en 1976: Piden en Italia que se procese a Massera, Astiz y Acosta, Clarín, 17 November 2004 (in Spanish)
- El Reloj, 6 April 2006
- ^ Quién es cada uno de los 18 juzgados, 26 October 2011 (in Spanish)
- ^ Junta leaders found guilty of stealing babies, July 06, 2012, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-06/junta-leaders-found-guilty-of-stealing-babies-in-argentina/4114032