Cáceres de Julien was able to determine the whereabouts of Anatole and Victoria in July 1979.
She therefore traveled to the city of Valparaíso, where she met with her grandson and
granddaughter. By then, the process for the Larrabeiti Yáñez couple to adopt Anatole and
Victoria was in progress. 103 According to the Argentine courts, Anatole and Victoria were the
first children found in the context of the crimes perpetrated during the dictatorship.
97. Ms. Cáceres de Julien and the Larrabeiti Yáñez couple reached an “agreement” on the
identity, care, and “adoptive legitimacy” of Anatole and Victoria. In this sense, on August 2,
1979, they signed "a legal document presented before the Third Court for Minors of
Valparaíso", in the following terms:
We agree […] [in] that the minors […] have the identity of Anatole Boris Julien and Eva Grisonas [sic].
[M]s. María Angélica Cáceres de Julien and Mr. Luis Alberto Julien are the paternal grandparents […], while
Ms. Lucía Andrijauskaite de Grisonas is [the] maternal grandmother […]. [B]oth of them […] are in good
health […] and absolutely emotionally and affectively established in [the] Larrabeiti-Yáñez family […].
[B]earing in mind the best interest of the children […] Ms. María Angélica Cáceres de Julien, for herself and
for her husband […] and for her mother-in-law […] accepts maintaining the current custody and care status
of […] [the] children [and that] their birth certificates be kept […] under [the] names of Anatole Alejandro
Larrabeiti Yáñez and […] Claudia Victoria Larrabeiti Yáñez, […]. [A]ll those appearing agree […] to proceed
gradually and in the technically appropriate manner with reconnecting the two minors with their blood or
natural relatives, informing them of their existence [and] scheduling periodic visits, and as far as possible,
back and forth, with the blood relatives visiting the children and vice-versa [...].” 104
98. From that moment forward, Anatole and Victoria grew up with their adoptive parents in
Valparaíso, where they had visits with their paternal grandmother. Although they were minors,
they were informed of their identity and origin. They also traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay,
where they met their other grandparents and blood relatives, with whom they "resum[ed]
their family relationship." When asked about the name they wanted to adopt, they chose to
keep the Larrabeiti Yáñez surnames. Anatole is a lawyer and works as a prosecutor in the city
of Santiago. Victoria is a psychologist and lives in Valparaíso. As Anatole stated at the public
hearing, Ms. Cáceres de Julien died in 1999. 105
D. Judicial and administrative processes carried out
D.1. Criminal processes
99. Case No. 2637/04 was processed before National Federal Criminal and Correctional Court
No. 3. The case was “separated” from case 14,216/03, processed before the same court after
the “reopening of the judicial investigations” as a result of from the enactment of Law 25,779
in 2003 (supra paras. 73 and 78). Case 14,216/03 involves the investigation of certain facts
attributed to military personnel that occurred from “March 24, 1976, [at] the end of the socalled 'National Reorganization Process,' […] having included […] events that occurred in 1974
and 1975.” For its part, case 2637/04 “focused especially” on investigating events that took
See complaint included in case file No. 14,846/96 (evidence file, volume XV, evidence to facilitate adjudication
of the case, folio 17856); note from the Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo dated May 13, 1997, addressed to the
National Court of First Instance for Federal Administrative Litigation No. 4, case No. 14,846/96, which appears in the
CUDAP file: EXP-SO4:0055600/2016, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (evidence file, volume IV, annex 6 to the
answering brief, folio 3060), and statement by Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez, which appears in: Judgment issued
by Federal Oral Criminal Court No. 1 on March 3, 2021, case No. 3002 (evidence file, volume X, annexes on
supervening facts, folio 16488).
104
Notarial certificate of the court document signed on August 2, 1979, by Jesús Larrabeiti Correa, Sylvia Yáñez
de Larrabeiti, and María Angélica Julien de Cáceres, which appears in CUDAP file EXP-SO4:0055600/2016, Ministry
of Justice and Human Rights (evidence file, volume IV, annex 6 to the answering brief, folios 3093 to 3097).
105
Cf. Statements of Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez and Claudia Victoria Larrabeiti Yáñez, given at a public
hearing and consisting of: Judgment issued by Federal Oral Criminal Court No. 6 on September 17, 2012, cases No.
1351, 1499, 1604, 1584, 1730, and 1772 (evidence file, volume IV, annex 18 to the answering brief, folios 15427
and 15431).
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