He traveled to Oberá to see a nutritionist and was arrested: he has been missing for 13 years

Ernest Azarkevich

06/18/2021 6:00 AM

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 06/18/2021 6:00 AM

The Federal Justice of Misiones will investigate the mysterious disappearance of Mario Fabián Golemba (27), who was last seen 13 years ago, when he traveled to Oberá to meet with a nutritionist.

The case will be treated as a

forced disappearance

, since there are indications that the young man was arrested and taken to the Dos de Mayo police station, according to some testimonies.

The young man's family had asked last April that the case be transferred to federal jurisdiction, since for years the investigation has been paralyzed in an Investigating Court.

Mario's mother, Irma Komka (66), and brother, Eliezer Golemba (27), became plaintiffs under the representation of Rafael Pereyra Pigerl, who has already intervened in several trials for crimes against humanity committed in Misiones.

Irma Komka, mother of Mario Golemba, disappeared in Oberá.

Facebook photo

This week, the Federal Court of Posadas decided to take over the case considering that

there are indications to suspect that it is facing a case of "forced disappearance of a person

.

"

In addition, he requested the intervention of the Institutional Violence Prosecutor (Procuvin), whose function is to promote criminal actions and guide investigations of illegal practices committed by state agents that threaten the freedom, integrity, dignity and life of vulnerable people.

The General Directorate of Accompaniment, Guidance and Protection of Victims (Dovic) will also be part of the process.

Golemba has been

wanted since March 27, 2008

.

That day, he left his house for Oberá, where he had a consultation with a nutritionist scheduled because he wanted to find a solution to his extreme thinness.

The claim of Mario Golemba's brother.

The hypothesis that is maintained but was never fully investigated by the provincial Justice is that Golemba was arrested by the Dos de Mayo Police, who at that time

was following in the footsteps of a gang of boqueteros

that had committed several robberies.

According to the complaint, there were versions that agents of the Oberá Investigation Brigade and the First Branch had even acted in the arrest, and that

the young man ended up handcuffed

at the Dos de Mayo police station.

In his letter, Pereyra Pigerl argued that the Misiones Justice acted with "lightness and lightness" by discrediting the statements of two detainees who claimed to have recognized Mario at the police station and who even exchanged some words with him before they took him away.

"Mario Fabián Golemba

was detained by the Misiones Police

, who did not record his arrest, nor did he enter the Dos de Mayo branch, and they hid Golemba or his remains until now," said the lawyer, who is also a deputy. provincial.

And he criticized “the secrecy and occultism that the present proceedings had for 13 years, in which he was not even allowed access to his family or the sponsoring lawyer;

the quasi-archiving and suspension of investigations for several years;

the interference of the Police in the investigation, trying through administrative statements, carried out in the Dos de Mayo police station, to distort the testimonial evidence taken by the judge in charge ”.

Family pain

Mario's father died without knowing what happened to his son

.

The young man's relatives also had to leave Dos de Mayo and settle in another province due to the constant intimidation they received.

Two testimonies are included in the file that locate Golemba in the police station.

Justice raided the place and even carried out some excavations in an old police station and on the side of a road, but without finding any evidence of the young man.

A year after Golemba's disappearance, Ramón Domingo Olivera (29) declared before the courts that Mario was arrested and taken to the Dos de Mayo police station, where he and other people were staying.

He maintained that he recognized him because the young man worked in the warehouse of a cooperative.

“He also recognized me and said: '

Hello Ramón, can you take out my cell phone, I'll give you the number so you can call my people

', the cell phone was in the front pocket of my pants and I couldn't take it out because it was handcuffed with his hands behind.

I didn't get to take out my cell phone because two policemen came and took it away ”.

“When I was inside the little radio room, I heard that they

hit

him and he said: 'Why

do they hit me if I never did anything for anyone

?'

I also heard that he said that he works for the yerba cooperative and that everyone knows him.

He said, '

I'm Mario Golemba,

' ”Olivera declared.

For his part, Carlos Almeida (61) made a story similar to Olivera's.

And that from one moment to another there was a change in the attitude of the police, who even gave him hot water for mate and cigarettes.

And that they no longer saw Golemba.

EMJ