On Monday April 28 to 15 hours at the Maison de Radio France in Paris and organized by the CAPE (Reception Center Foreign Press)
Macarena Gelman was born in captivity in Montevideo in 1976, gave for the first time in Europe a news conference.
quatorze was attended by the press media, radio or international agency, EFE, France-Presse (AFP), RFI, Le Monde, APLA, Universo Latino,
Phosphore. Radio Continental in Buenos Aires held a lengthy live interview.
With the presence of members of the association "Where are they? Paris, who invited her to come to Paris and the Class for Memory (Argentina), Macarena
expressed need to know the truth about the events in 1976, when his mother Maria Claudia Garcia de Gelman disappeared a few days after birth and their right to opine on the law of forfeiture, voted in 1986 by the Senate, which prevents investigate and do justice in all cases of missing or murdered which still remain unpunished.
'I erate very small at that time and I could not say' 'Now I have a right to know and say, like all my generation, as the law of forfeiture conditions to the entire society. " Express the need to strike this law and supports the current campaign to collect signatures to cancel by plebiscite in 2009. .
himself a day at 19 pm at La Casa Argentina de la Ciudad Universitaria de Paris, Macarena participate in a community meeting with Uruguayan and Argentine friends, French and Latin. For two hours there was a lot of emotional intercambio.Hubo questions that clearly responded Macarena
and safe, also words expressing our support and joy to have her among us.
The room overflowed with more than 100 people who attended and applauded at the end very, very hard and long at this young woman with dignity and courage
battle being waged by the whole truth of his incredible story and to get justice about what happened.
Montevideo Cooperative Radio, broadcast live the first 10 minutes of his words when talking about the law of forfeiture.
continue posting, extracts of their speeches, as well as pictures and news articles on this memorable day. Thank you all.
PARIS (AFP) - A few weeks after a landmark trial in Paris to 15 Chilean responsible for crimes during the so-called 'Operation Condor' of Latin American military dictatorships in the years 1970-1980, one of the victims, Macarena Gelman traveled to Paris to demand justice.
Argentina, missing daughter, born in captivity in Uruguay, Gelman met his true identity only in 2000 when she was 23 years, thanks to the tireless efforts he made to his grandfather at the international level, the Argentine poet Juan Gelman, recently awarded the Cervantes Prize.
On February 27, 2008, she sued Uruguayan justice before a retrial on the forced disappearance of her mother.
This file had been closed under the so-called law of Expiry which allowed Uruguay impunity of those responsible for crimes during the dictatorship in that country (1973-1985). Maria Claudia Garcia
Iruretagoyena and Marcelo Gelman, parents of Macarena, were 19 and 20 years respectively, when they were abducted on 24 August 1976 in Buenos Aires, by agents of the military dictatorship in that country.
The arrest of the two was conducted in the framework of Operation Condor, the coordinated repression of dictatorships in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile and Bolivia, to kill his political opponents.
Marcelo and Maria Claudia were taken to a torture center known as' Motor Orletti. " Shortly afterwards, Marcelo was killed by a bullet in the head and his body thrown into a river inside a container of cement, located and identified in 1989.
Maria Claudia, who was seven months pregnant when she was kidnapped, was given to the Uruguayan agents secretly moved to Montevideo, being detained at the headquarters of the Defense Information Service (CIS), to the birth of Macarena, 1 November 1976.
Two weeks after the birth of Macarena in a military hospital, Mary Claudia was moved to the so-called 'Base Valparaiso' and killed by the military.
His body was allegedly thrown into the sea in the so-called "death flights." The newborn was stolen and entrusted to the family of a Uruguayan police who raised her, though she knew his true identity, until 2000, when his grandfather gave her.
'was my adoptive mother who told me that he had discovered my true identity, "recalled the girl, who acknowledged the great support of the couple who adopted her to face this new reality.
"I think they did not know the truth," said Macarena at a press conference in Paris, which he said had not been proved links between those responsible for the disappearance of her mother and adoptive family. Macarena
came to Paris after taking part in Madrid's Cervantes ceremony of his grandfather Juan Gelman, invited by the association where they are, they took an active part in the campaign to locate and now that justice is done in the case of the disappeared in Uruguay.
on his personal history 'which is a collective history of many countries in Latin America', she said that perhaps one day write a book.
At the moment, said to be devoted primarily to the campaign in Uruguay annul the amnesty law to claim punitive State
that has so far that the murderers of his mother has escaped justice.
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