84. Second, the evidence reveals that, during the hearing of the oral proceeding before the First Court of the Criminal and Correctional Appeals Chamber of La Plata (supra para. 47), on November 12, 1996, the then companion of the federal police agent who had been indicted in the proceedings was summoned to testify, together with her mother. Subsequently, before the Special Investigative Commission of the National Congress (supra para. 56), the then mother-in-law of the accused federal police agent “acknowledged that she had given false testimony in the criminal proceedings because she had been coerced by her former son-in-law.” 175 She also stated that, after the said federal police agent had been arrested, his father went “to look for all the weapons that he had at home. And he took away the weapons.” 176 The evidence shows that, on February 17, 1997, the witness reiterated this version before the Fifth Police Precinct of the Federal Police. 177 85. Third, on November 17, 2000, the brother of the then companion of the accused federal police agent testified before the judge of the proceeding that, on the day of the death of Assistant Commissioner Gutiérrez, the police agent told him, on arriving back at the house, that “we had to do away with a rozzer.” He also indicated, “that, a few days later,” the father of the accused federal police agent, together with another two individuals, took from his home “a shoe box where […] he kept weapons, revolvers and pistols, some of them unassembled,” and that, on that occasion, the father of the said federal police agent threatened him so that he would testify that the latter was at home on the day and at the time of the incident, which he refused to do. 178 86. Fourth, there is evidence that, during the preliminary investigation stage of the criminal proceeding, two adolescents testified before the Commissioner in charge of the investigation on September 18, 1994 (supra para. 45), that they had given testimonial statements in other offices of the Police of the province of Buenos Aires and of the Federal Police, in which they had falsely implicated two “boys” in the murder of Assistant Commissioner Gutiérrez. In this regard, they rectified the said statements and stated that they were obliged to give them under “threat from personnel of the “Roca Division of the Argentine Federal Police,” providing the names they knew them by, and their description. 179 The two minors at the time of the events ratified these statements before the Special Investigative Commission of the National Congress (supra para. 56) and added that they had been “beaten” by personnel of the “Roca Division” and that, after revealing the truth of their false confessions, they continued to be threatened. 180 87. Fifth, during the criminal proceedings, on May 6, 1999, the Inspector who had collaborated in the investigation into the violent death of Mr. Gutiérrez in 1994 presented a brief to the judge of the proceedings describing, inter alia, a “series of confrontations and 175 Cf. Final report of the Special Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress of November 1997 (merits file, folio 946). 176 Cf. Typewritten versions of the statements of the then mother-in-law of the accused federal police agent, and of Francisco Gutiérrez (file of annexes to the submission brief, folios 175 to 178 and 181). 177 Cf. Statement of February 17, 1997, before the Fifth Police Precinct of the Argentine Federal Police (file of annexes to the submission brief, folios 202 and 203). 178 Cf. Statement of November 17, 2000, before Transitional Court No. 2 of the La Plata Judicial Department (file of annexes to the submission brief, folios 247 to 248). 179 Cf. “Case 57,927, ‘report of illegal coercion,’ National Criminal Court of First Instance No. 32” (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, folios 2098 to 2100), and Statement before the Second Police Precinct of La Plata of September 18, 1994 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, folios 2101 and 2102). 180 Cf. Copy of the typewritten versions of the statements presented to the Special Investigative Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress (file of annexes to the submission brief, folios 161 to 164). 35