After being absent a subpoena alengando a disease, the former deputy editor of the newspaper Clarín Gregorio Reinaldo Bandini finally showed up yesterday to testify in the case that research if Marcela and Noble Felipe Herrera were appropriated during the last dictatorship. Although denied knowing the true identity of the young, The witness confirmed the existence of a plan to adopt two boys in 1976 and avoid the company remained in the hands of Martha Guadalupe Zapata, former wife of the founder of the newspaper, Robert Noble, and mother of his biological daughter Guadalupe Noble.
Bandini was built as a witness after a complaint by the Human Rights Secretariat of the Nation, published exclusively by Argentine Time, which as noted is the link between civilians and military during the dictatorship. The presentation is appointed as the main source of the book Empire Corrupt Noble, William Patrick Kelly, which questions the official account of Clarín on the adoption of Felipe and Marcela. The book also includes a letter document sent to Ernestina Herrera de Noble, which reminds him that was responsible for the guardianship, asset management and education "of young people.
Bandini, 85, arrived on foot at No. 1 in federal court in San Isidro at 9:30, accompanied by his son, a lawyer and namesake, Reinaldo Bandini, who was not allowed to be present at the hearing, as his father had been called as a witness and not as a defendant. During more than six hours to speak to the Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, the retired journalist denied knowing the true identity of Felipe and Marcela, and said he was only aware of the adoption "legal" by the owner Clarin, Ernestina Herrera de Noble. However, he recalled those of his sister Neve, personal friend of Ernest, who had said "that caught his attention that the boy was darker and the girl seemed German."
One of the central themes of his story was the origin of the idea of \u200b\u200badopting two boys in 1976 by the owner of Clarín, described as a "Machiavellian plan" by the plaintiff attorney Paul Llonto. "Before I retire from the company planned a very serious situation, if the lady died before the end of the trial (which had begun Noble's ex-wife), who stayed with the newspaper? This gave the idea, need, that Madame had two children. Then comes the draft Scripto Establissement (the Swiss company created by Clarín). Then the lawyers appointed to four people (Hector) Magnetto, Octavio Frigerio, but can not remember the other two, may be one of them Aranda. And the other was me, "he said noting that he had confidence the widow of Noble.
recalled that traveled to Geneva to sign the agreement that created the company, which was a deposit of $ 100 million, which were the financial reserves of Noble, belonging to the newspaper. "She was the one who pushed my name in case she died, and I was as custodian the boys, as the godfather. It was like an imposition made by Mrs. "he said.
In this way, the witness confirmed that the idea of \u200b\u200badopting a plan born Rogelio Frigerio (near developmental leader Clarín) and Bernardo Sofovich (corporate counsel) to reverse the trial that had begun the former wife of Robert Noble and where "playing the very existence of the newspaper." For this reason they were also inscribed with the name Noble, despite the newspaper's founder had died seven years. The witness said he heard that information from the mouth of Ernestina, followed by the phrase "I'ma mother now double."
"The Adoption is Machiavellian. There is no question of love, there is only business, "said Llonto, complainant in the case, who was present at the declaration with the lawyer of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Alan Iud. Guadalupe also Noble, biological daughter of the founder of Clarín, had raised the issue by stating in September 2008, when the cause was Bergesio Judge Conrad. "If I had known about the adoption and had the name Noble would have a court filing, because I was not consulted, because they were adopted ten years after my father died," he said.
citation In the order made by the Secretariat Human Rights, Bandini is also named as a professor at the National Defence Ministry of Defence during the dictatorship. With emphasis on a conference in Cordoba police had "addressed to armed forces personnel and security, and civilian officials terrorist dictatorship which then usurped the powers of the state."
During the testimony, the retired journalist mentioned that the National Defence College, he taught, but denied having trained repressors. His son told this newspaper: "My father is developmental, had nothing to do with state terrorism. He taught at the School of Defense for 30 years but not a former repressors.
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