for decades. He has always seemed like a very low, dirty person who preyed upon innocent people who gathered to mourn the disappearance and probable murder of their children, kidnapped by the dictatorship's Dirty War on the people of Argentina.

The nuns:



Alicia Domon, Caty, (born September 23, 1937, Charquemont, Doubs, France; disappeared on December 17 or 18, 1977 near Santa Teresita by the Argentine Sea) was a Roman Catholic nun from France who was one of two French nationals to be "disappeared" in December 1977 in Argentina during the military dictatorship of the "National Reorganization Process" (1976–1983). She was among a dozen people associated with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group, who were kidnapped and taken to the secret detention center at ESMA. According to witnesses who saw her there, over a period of about 10 days, she was interrogated and tortured, forced to write a letter claiming participation in guerrilla group opposing the government, and photographed in a staged setting in front of a Montoneros banner (this photo was released to the press). That group of detainees, including Sister Léonie Duquet, was "transferred", a euphemism for being taken out and killed. Domon's remains have never been found.

Bodies began to wash up on beaches south of Buenos Aires in December 1977. They were quickly buried in mass graves. A March 1978 Agence France-Presse article reported that the bodies of the missing two French nuns and others associated with the Mothers were believed to have been among them.[1]

In 2000, a small plaza in Buenos Aires was named "Hermana Alice Domon y Hermana Leonie Duquet," in honor of the sisters. Their lives are celebrated in an annual commemoration at the Santa Cruz church of San Cristobal, where they had worked, and where the remains of Duquet and several Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are buried.

In 2011, Alfredo Astiz, who had infiltrated the Mothers of the Plaza and organized the abduction of the twelve in December 1977, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for that and other crimes against humanity. For his torturing at ESMA, he had been nicknamed "The Blond Angel of Death."


More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Domon

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Léonie Duquet (April 9, 1916, Longemaison, Doubs, France – 1977, Argentina) was a French nun who was arrested in December 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and "disappeared." She was believed killed by the military regime of Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla during the Dirty War. Alice Domon, a French nun working with Duquet, disappeared a few days later. They had been working in poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the 1970s and supported the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, founded in 1977. Despite repeated efforts by France to trace the sisters, the Argentine military dictatorship was unresponsive. In 1990 a French court in Paris tried Argentine Captain Alfredo Astiz, known to have arrested Duquet and believed implicated in the "disappearance" of Domon, for kidnapping the two sisters. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia.[1] In Argentina at the time, he and other military and security officers were shielded from prosecution by Pardon Laws passed in 1986 and 1987. These were repealed in 2003 and ruled unconstitutional in 2005, and the government re-opened prosecution of war crimes.

In July 2005 several bodies were found in a mass grave in General Lavalle Cemetery, 400 kilometers south of Buenos Aires. Forensic DNA testing in August identified one as Duquet's. DNA testing revealed that within the same grave were the remains of the three "disappeared" Argentine women, founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who had also been missing since December 1977. Domon has not been found.[1] Since the confirmation of Duquet's murder, France has been seeking extradition of Astiz; in 2005 he was being detained in Argentina after being indicted on charges of kidnapping and torture.[1]

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9onie_Duquet

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After being brutally tortured they were forced to sit under this banner while someone took their photo, pretending it was proof they belonged to what was believed a violent group of revolutionaries.





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The sociopath Astiz worked for the Navy School of Mechanics during the time he stalked people and set them up for execution. Here he is, featured on a magazine cover, working on his tan at a Yacht Club in Argentina in a town where his family seemed to be well known, prominent:




Translation of magazine article:

Today, several soldiers were sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes committed at the School of Mechanics of the Navy (ESMA), one of the main clandestine detention centers of the last dictatorship. Among those sentenced are Jorge "Tigre" Acosta, Antonio Pernías and Alfredo Astiz. On the latter, a note published by the magazine Gente nº964 of January 12, 1984, when the ex-sailor vacationed on the coast.

"Although in Playa Grande all or almost all are known, or at least those who year after year return to the tents bearing their surname, those corresponding to row three of the Yacth Club Argentino are hidden, almost stuck at the beginning of the breakwater that divides the beach from the port. Of course it is a matter of walking, and one suddenly, looking at those last names, meets some famous people. For example, Facundo Suárez (head of the SIDE at that time), Clorindo Testa, and on the left, as one who walks towards the sea, Alfredo B. Astiz. The surname is not unknown in Mar del Plata. Until it appears in the guide,

but ... Alfredo Astiz!
A spa employee says: ' Yes, they always come. The boy is very blond, the two sisters too. One is married and the other single. That family lives here in Mar del Plata. The boy I think is marine and the sailors here are not charged. They have been since the beginning of the year . '

It's a matter of walking. Look at the girls - the monas of course - and a tall, very blonde, model-like, who greets everyone as she walks down the aisle of row number three of the Yacht Club. It stops right in front of a tent. Say hello to whoever seems to be his brother. María Eugenia, that's what it's called (that would be known later) then greets the group. The brother in question is none other than Captain Alfredo Astiz. It's hard to recognize him. There are no photos that serve to identify it. The only one that is known is the one that was spread during the Falklands war, when he is signing the surrender of Georgias. There he wore a uniform, had a beard for several weeks and was in profile. Although it could be noticed in

that photo a detail: his eyes, his look. Now he does not wear a beard, he is very tanned (something that highlights his blue eyes). Blonde hair, slightly waved and a style of talking and moving almost aristocratic.
He usually arrives at the beach around noon, with his parents. Then visit some tents in row three. He sits down, reads the newspaper, talks with Ricardo Yoli, blond like him and who, like him, was in the surrender of the Georgias and who once captained the yacht Fortuna in international racing competitions.

Other of their customs in this vacation is to settle in the bar of the yacht for a long time. If the weather is radiant it is installed on the sand, at the end of the row of tents. There he continues talking, he laughs with laughter from a very young man. That day he wears a nautical fabric short in yellow, red and blue, and he wears fashionable flip-flops. He is sitting on a stool of blue iron and canvas. Almost always looking towards the sea is the sun wherever it is. Surround

He worked as a diplomat in the Argentine embassy in South Africa and was decorated by the government of Pretoria. Young and very cute girls. He stretches his legs, crisscrosses them and permanently hits one foot against the other. He also crosses his arms and looks everywhere. Because of the location of those who accompany him, he would seem to be the focus of the meeting; that is why it is difficult to approach him. But the women are leaving. Only accompanied, now, a tall man, beefy, dark. With boxer nose and yellow shorts, which stands next to him. It was time:
-Mr. Captain, we are journalists. We want to talk with you.
- (Stares fixed, annoyed) There are no statements.
-But, Mr. Captain, you must understand ...
- (At that moment, and this the chronicler would know later, the short-haired man seemed to want to interrupt, but stopped) I thank you, but there are no statements. Any statement must be requested to the Command.
-Do you mean that if we get that authorization we can talk to you?
- (Indifferent) And ... Yes, if the Command authorizes it ... -
Is there no possibility at this time?
-I can not speak because I'm still a seafarer in activity.
Greet the journalists without getting up from the chair and within minutes several friends come to ask what happened. He laughs and looks towards the sea, still sunbathing. Cream Sapolán Ferrini is put on. After a while, he decides to enter the water. He is accompanied by a friend in a white bathing suit. Around four in the afternoon he returns to his tent and stays chatting with friends.
Not much is known about Astiz's current life.
It is known that he was born in Azul on November 17, 1950. His father is Vice Admiral (retired) Alfredo Edgardo Astiz. At 18 he entered the Naval School. He always wanted to be what he is. To such an extent that his classmates from elementary school called him 'the sailor brother'. After graduation he received special training in the United States. There he passed the Inclement Test, the most risky test of survival at sea. He is a good tennis player but his favorite entertainment is the pool. In Bahía Blanca, a city that has frequented since November 1982, it goes to two: Waterloo and Los Lagartos, which has this name in homage to him. He drives two cars: a BMW he bought in South Africa and a white Ford Falcon. One night, at about 3.20, he found his BMW parked on Alsina street in Bahía Blanca, with the four wheels cut and a legend written with spray that said: 'Malvinas. We will be back!

His parents and his sister live in Mar del Plata. (...) His sister, usually works in the promotion and public relations departments of different scientific conferences held in Mar del Plata. His brother is still on vacation. "

http://www.teaydeportea.edu.ar/archivos/cuando-astiz-veraneaba-impunemente-en-mar-del-plata/

It's interesting to have learned in this article that Astiz, the "Blond Angel of Death" was sent to the US for special training in his craft. You may recall that Henry Kissinger was communicating with the dictatorship behind everyone's backs, giving them moral support, and advice on how to prosecute their mass murder, etc., while keeping the US Congress' approval.

Here's a photo of Arrú, himself:

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/georges-mario-daniel-arru-pilot-during-argentinas-military-and-for-picture-id882015546

Here he investigates his mysterious rubbery lips with his fingers during his trial:



Good Guardian article from last year:

Argentina 'death flight' pilots sentenced for deaths including pope's friend
The country’s largest-ever trial culminated in first judgment against pilots who threw opponents of military regime into ocean during 1976-83 dictatorship

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/29/argentina-death-flight-pilots-sentenced-for-deaths-including-popes-friend

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What a shame Macri, the Dirty War admirer, has already removed so many of these criminals from prison. It serves to show us he has no more respect for human beings and the law than Donald Trump.

It really matters how these men spend the rest of their rotten lives.

Thank you for the information, sandensea. Hope we haven't heard the last word on these men. Hope their futures will get darker again.