ARGENTINA: THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE TO PRIESTS AND SEMINARIANS SHOT DEAD IN RAID BY SO-CALLED RIGHT WING DEATH SQUADS.

Record ID: 448789

  • Title: ARGENTINA: THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE TO PRIESTS AND SEMINARIANS SHOT DEAD IN RAID BY SO-CALLED RIGHT WING DEATH SQUADS.
  • Date: 7th July 1976
  • Summary: 1. GV PAN EXT Church 0.05 2. MV People queuing outside church (2 shots) 0.10 3. MV Mourners passing coffins PULL BACK TO GV 0.21 4. CU Mourners 0.24 5. CU Weeping relative PULL BACK TO GV priest and relative 0.30 6. CU Motor of priest at coffin and people passing (3 shots) 0.45 7. SV People passing coffins (4 shots) 1.01
  • Embargoed: 22nd July 1976 13:00
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  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Reuters ID: LVA9L5IZNVEB2I1KW366D97VB5GF
  • Story Text: Thousands of mourners paid their last respects to three priests and two seminarians who were shot in a raid in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sunday (4 July). The raid was attributed to so-called right-wing death squads. A wake for the priests began on Monday.

    SYNOPSIS: The men were shot in the parish house of St. Patricks church in the residential area of Belgrano. They were members of the Roman Catholic Palatine order and their bullet-ridden bodies were found by an altar boy who was to have assisted them at Sunday mass. A message scrawled on the church walls said the men were killed for being members of the left-wing Peronist Montoneros urban guerrilla group.

    The killings appeared to be in retaliation for the left-wing guerrilla bombing of the security headquarters of the Federal Police last week. 18 people were reported dead and 66 injured.

    St. Patrick's church is the centre of the English-speaking Catholic communist in Buenos Aires. It was established in 1928. The killings there bring the total of people known to have died through politically-motivated acts of violence to more than 450. These deaths have occurred since the military coup in March which deposed President Maria Estela Peron.
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