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Argentina. The case is unusual as for the first time it makes use of a new Spanish law whereby people can be prosecuted for crimes committed outside Spain.
The former Argentinean Army Officer, AdolfoScilingo was arrested in Spain in 1997 by judge Garzon, the examining magistrate.
Scilingo was accused of attempted genocide, since the aim of the military regime at the time was to eliminate, systematically, a whole category of people, namely the opponents of the regime.
Scilingo's defence lawyer asked the Court to acquit his client for lack of evidence.
AdolfoScilingo, 58, was tried for genocide in Spain's first such case under laws allowing the prosecution of crimes committed in another country.
Scilingo's court-appointed defense attorney said his client was unfairly made to answer for all the atrocities carried out from 1976 to 1983 by Argentina's military junta, which imprisoned students, teachers, labor union members and others in the guise of fighting a leftist insurgency.
Scilingo, who came to Spain voluntarily in 1997 to testify, told the investigating magistrate, Baltasar Garzon, and reporters in dozens of interviews that he had taken part in the death flights, but he later retracted the story, called it an elaborate lie and asserted his innocence.
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