Popular Argentina Criminal Has Been Jailed( SEE DETAILS)

Former policeman who worked at one of the most notorious torture centres during the country’s military has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Argentina.

Mario Sandoval, 69, was found guilty of abducting and torturing left-wing student Hernán Abriata, who disappeared in 1976 and is presumed dead.

Sandoval fled Argentina after the end of military rule and settled in France, where he became a university lecturer.

He was extradited in 2019.

Sandoval has been accused of participating in the disappearance and torture of hundreds of left-wing activists during Argentina’s military rule from 1976 to 1983.

But the trial only dealt with one case: that of architecture student Hernán Abriata who was dragged from his home by police in 1976.

After a long legal battle, France’s top administrative court ruled that he could be extradited to his home country because the crime he stood accused of had been committed in Argentina when he did not yet hold French citizenship.

His trial in Buenos Aires started in September.

Sandoval maintained to the end that he was not the man who had seized Hernán Abriata in 1976 and showed little emotion when he was convicted.

Monica Dittmar, the wife of missing Hernan Abriata, holds a picture of him as she waits for the beginning of the trial against Argentine former police officer Mario Sandoval over Abriata’s disappearance at the federal courts in Buenos Aires, on September 14, 202