(PERIODISTAS/IFEX) – On Friday 6 April 2001, photojournalist Rolando Andrade from the daily “La Nacion”, was attacked by two bodyguards of Miguel Etchecolatz, former Buenos Aires police chief during the last dictatorship. The assault occurred while Andrade was covering an oral public proceeding against Etchecolatz for public intimidation. Hours later, Etchecolatz was detained because of […]
(PERIODISTAS/IFEX) – On Friday 6 April 2001, photojournalist Rolando Andrade from the daily “La Nacion”, was attacked by two bodyguards of Miguel Etchecolatz, former Buenos Aires police chief during the last dictatorship. The assault occurred while Andrade was covering an oral public proceeding against Etchecolatz for public intimidation. Hours later, Etchecolatz was detained because of another case, in which he is accused of child abduction and falsifying identities.
In a joint press release released by PERIODISTAS and the Argentine Photojournalist Association (Asociacion de Reporteros Gráficos de la República Argentina, AGRA), the organisations report that despite the existence of television footage, which clearly identifies the brothers Jorge and Marcelo Gristcelli as Andrade’s assailants, the government has yet to act on the matter.
The association condemns the police’s extreme passivity surrounding the attack, the government’s apathy, the fact that the investigation is progressing extremely slowly, and the fact that no arrests have been made.
