Global Courant
“Thank God, science proved us right. My son didn’t commit suicide. Now, Mr. Greca, open the investigation and find the person who murdered my son.” With vehemence and authority, Natalia Uribe tells Clarín what she said to the judge who was in charge of the investigation into the death of the soldier Pablo Córdoba (June 20). ) who was found at dawn with two FAL (Light Automatic Rifle) projectiles in his head on June 1st, in the Zapala Regiment, Neuquén.
Almost four months after what happened in the same regiment where the soldier Omar Carrasco was murdered in 1994, the Forensic Medical Corps of the Justice of Neuquén published in the last hours the report of the extended autopsy carried out on the man’s body. “There are no traces of gunpowder visible on the victim’s hands and it is impossible for the injured party to make conscious and active movements after the first shot,” reads a passage in the text.
Maximiliano Orpianessi, lawyer for the Córdoba family, does not hesitate to affirm, together with Uribe, that “by rejecting the army’s theory that claimed he committed suicide, the existence of third parties in Pablo’s death that we are talking about is proven.” “
The lawyer also says that there is other conclusive evidence: “The magazine of the rifle was separated from the rest of the weapon when they found Pablo, which does not happen with the simple shock, but that to do this a certain maneuver must be carried out.” Extract it. Because, on the other hand, the same report indicates that the weapon was in shot-by-shot mode, which excludes the possibility of an accident due to the disposition of the shot. Now we need to examine why it was claimed that the murderer removed the magazine.
The lawyer has no doubt that Judge Greca is “looking for justification in the expertise of Pablo’s phone and computer to maintain the suicide theory. “Obviously he is under pressure from the army, but fortunately, as Natalia (Uribe) says, he is.” Science must verify what we have claimed from the beginning. This is murder through and through.”
Orpianessi comments in dialogue with Clarín that after this news he began to demand “evidence of all stripes They were carried out. “There were striking contradictions; I also requested an expansion of ballistics, camera testing and further reconstruction of what could have happened. How can the FAL have no fingerprints when Pablo, who held it, had no gloves?”
Pablo Córdoba with his mother Natalia Uribe and his sister. “The army is covering it up,” says Urbie.
Natalia sighs deeply, understanding despite all the pain she has been through: “This is a relief and now we have to focus on finding the perpetrator. Judge Greca needs to step up the investigation and take the pressure off the person.” Army… If not, I think he is blind because he doesn’t see what is obvious. He called me just last Friday to testify and asked me about my son’s mental state. How can that be? He insisted to me, saying, “If Pablo was sad, depressed, or down about something… No, sir, my son was a normal, happy boy with ups and downs like any other.”
Excerpt from the extended autopsy of soldier Pablo Córdoba, which rules out suicide.
Tirelessly, Uribe found out through “people who work in the army that there were transfers and changes of destination among high-ranking leaders in August.” The head of the Zapala garrison, Lieutenant Colonel Lamas, was given the pass, and he did not have it Answers to why he was transferred. “After the death of Lieutenant Colonel Green, the head of the artillery group, and also of Lieutenant González, who was the officer in charge when the incident with my son occurred, everything is very strange, but the army moves as it pleases.”
