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Former Neuquén governor Jorge Sobisch (photo: Wikipedia)
Judge Marcelo Muñoz acquitted former Neuquén governor Jorge Sobisch, who had been accused of ordering the provincial police to not intervene during an incident in which protesting teachers were attacked in 2006.
According to the judge, “it could not be proved that there was a direct or indirect order [by then-governor Sobisch] for the police not to intervene” when the protesters were attacked by members of Sobisch’s party, Movimiento Popular Neuquino (MPN).
He also dismissed the plaintiff’s strategy to use a speech by the former governor, after the facts, in which he said he had ordered the police not to supress protests “in order to keep social peace”, as he understood it was “a political manifestation”.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Ricardo Mendaña, said that “during the trial we demonstrated that there was an area free of police presence so that a group could beat up the teachers, we demonstrated that there was an order, but it seems like that order came from nowhere.”
After the ruling was read, there were clashes between members of the Neuquén Education Workers’ Union (ATEN) and of the MNP outside the court. Protesters were dispersed by police using rubber bullets and tear gas.
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