An oral court in La Plata handed down the sentences for the disappearances and torture suffered by 605 people. Among those convicted is the former Buenos Aires Government Minister Jaime Smart and the doctor Jorge Antonio Bergés.

Among the cases tried is “La Noche de Los Lápices’, the kidnapping and disappearance of high school students who were demanding a student ticket. The judges imposed life imprisonment for the former head of the Mechanized Infantry Regiment No. 3 of La Tablada, Federico Minicucci.