102. On May 28, 1994, Luz Altagracia Ramírez, the family and friends of Narciso González
Medina filed a complaint before the Disappeared Persons Office of the Homicide
Investigation Department of the National Police. 112 Around this date, the media began to
disseminate news of Mr. González Medina’s disappearance. 113
103. In the days following Mr. González Medina’s disappearance, Luz Altagracia Ramírez
and other family members received telephone calls, anonymous letters, and visits from
people all of which gave different versions about what had happened to Mr. González
Medina, with indications of place, date and time, some indicating that he was in military or
police facilities. Among others, they received several telephone calls indicating that Mr.
González Medina was in the Intelligence Division or Directorate of the Armed Forces
Secretariat (J-2). 114
104. On June 1, 1994, Luz Altagracia Ramírez was received by the Secretary of the Armed
Forces in his office. Mrs. Ramírez informed the Secretary about her husband’s
disappearance, and he told her that there were no prisons in the Armed Forces Secretariat
and that he had learned of what had happened through the media. The following day, Mrs.
Ramírez went to the National Police in search of information, “without any success.” Since
she continued to receive calls that Narciso González Medina was in the facilities of the
Armed Forces in a bad condition, Mrs. Ramírez went again to the offices of the Armed
Forces where she was received by the Secretary’s assistant. On that occasion, Mrs. Ramírez
106, folio 1100; statement made by Jennie Rosanna González Ramírez on June 16, 2011, supra note 99, folio
1119; affidavit made by Rhina Yokasta González Ramírez on June 16, 2011 (merits file, tome III, folios 1129 and
1130); statement made by Luz Altagracia Ramírez on June 6, 1998, before the Joint Board, supra note 106, folio
4135; summary of the statement of Luz Altagracia Ramírez of July 7, 1995, before the Investigating Court, supra
note 106, folios 4315 and 4316; summary of the statement made by Luz Altagracia Ramírez on July 16, 2002,
before the Santo Domingo Review Chamber (file of attachments to the application, attachment 15, folio 4570);
summary of the statement made by Jennie Rosanna González Ramírez on July 14, 1995, before the Seventh
Investigating Court, supra note 110, folio 4321; summary of the statement made by Roberto José Santana
Sánchez before the Seventh Investigating Court, supra note 99, folios 4386 and 4387, and summary of the
statement made by Ana Dolores Guzmán de Camacho, cited in the Summary of the Police Board investigation,
supra note 107, folio 4875.
112
Cf. Summary of complaint of May 28, 1995, filed before the Section of Disappeared Persons of the
Homicide Investigation Department of the National Police by Luz Altagracia Ramírez, cited in the Summary of the
Police Board investigation (file of attachments to the pleadings and motions brief, attachment 10, folios 4864 and
4868); statement made by Luz Altagracia Ramírez before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held
in this case on June 28, 2011; and letter from the “Truth Commission” to the Head of the National Police dated
February 22, 1995, supra note 65, folio 3828.
113
Cf. Statement of Luz Altagracia Ramírez of June 6, 1998, before the Joint Board, supra note 106, folio
4135); newspaper article published in Hoy entitled “Profesor de UASD está desaparecido” on May 28, 1994, can be
seen on page 220 of the book by José Díaz entitled “Narcisazo ¿dónde estás?”, supra note 99, folio 4745.
114
Cf. Statement made by Luz Altagracia Ramírez before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing
held in this case on June 28, 2011; statement made by Luz Altagracia Ramírez on June 6, 1998, before the Joint
Board, supra note 106, folio 4135; summary of the statement of Luz Altagracia Ramírez of July 7, 1995, before the
Investigating Court, supra note 106, folios 4315 to 4318; testimony given by Mario José Martín Suriel Núñez during
the public hearing held in this case on June 28, 2011; summary of the statement made by Clara Feliz del Villar
before the Police Board, cited in the Summary of the Police Board investigation (file of attachments to the
pleadings and motions brief, attachment 10, folio 4880); summary of the statement made by Rosalía Ramírez
Martínez of February 3, 1999, before the Investigating Judge, cited in the Investigating Court’s ruling of August 24,
2001,, supra note 105, folio 4482; summary of the statement made by Rosalía Ramírez Martínez before the Police
Board, cited in the Summary of the Police Board investigation (file of attachments to the pleadings and motions
brief, attachment 10, folio 4874).
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