Pablo Gazzarri
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Father Pablo Gazzarri was an ordained priest who worked in the Parish of Nuestra Señora del Carmen de Villa Urquiza (Buenos Aires
) who was abducted on November 27, 1976; being the fifth anniversary of his ordination. He was tortured and killed by his abductors.
Father Gazzarri had an intense political commitment that led him to join the group descamisados. According to witnesses, he was intercepted on the street near his parents' home by people wearing police uniforms. The prisoner was seen at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the Navy
and was "moved" in the first days of January 1977. According to the survivor Ralil Lisandro Cubas, Father Gazzarri was brutally tortured at the ESMA.
In 2002, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires Gazzarri honored the Father.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
) who was abducted on November 27, 1976; being the fifth anniversary of his ordination. He was tortured and killed by his abductors.
Father Gazzarri had an intense political commitment that led him to join the group descamisados. According to witnesses, he was intercepted on the street near his parents' home by people wearing police uniforms. The prisoner was seen at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the Navy
ESMA
The Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics , commonly referred to by its abbreviation ESMA, is a facility of the Argentine Navy that was employed as an illegal detention center during the dictatorial rule of the National Reorganization Process...
and was "moved" in the first days of January 1977. According to the survivor Ralil Lisandro Cubas, Father Gazzarri was brutally tortured at the ESMA.
In 2002, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires Gazzarri honored the Father.