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i) Obligation to publish the judgment
154. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to publish this judgment in a
national newspaper as a measure of satisfaction for the victims.
155. The representatives, in their final arguments brief, asked that, as a form of symbolic
reparation, the State publish the judgment in a national daily newspaper with widespread
circulation.
156.
The State did not submit additional arguments in this regard.
157. As the Court has ordered in other cases,139 the State must publish once in the official
gazette, in another national newspaper with widespread circulation, and in a newspaper
with extensive circulation in the state of Paraná, the cover page, Chapters I, VI and VII,
without the footnotes, and the operative paragraphs of this judgment, as a measure of
satisfaction In addition, as the Court has ordered on previous occasions,140 this judgment
must be published in its entirety, for at least one year, on an appropriate official web site of
the Federal State and of the state of Paraná, taking into account the characteristics of the
publication that the Court has ordered. The publications in the newspapers and on the
Internet must be made within six and two months, respectively, of notification of this
judgment.
ii) Public acknowledgement of international responsibility
158. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to publicly acknowledge its
international responsibility for the violations that occurred and the damage caused.
159. The representatives, in their pleadings and motions brief, asked that an act should be
held where the State publicly acknowledged its responsibility for the facts. In their final
arguments brief, they added that the State should arrange a tribute (in memoriam) to
Sétimo Garibaldi by inaugurating a public school in Querência do Norte with his name, in the
presence of public authorities and his next of kin.
160. The State did not submit additional arguments in this regard.
161. The Court has ordered acts of public acknowledgement of international responsibility
as a guarantee of non-repetition of the facts, generally although not exclusively, in order to
repair violations of the rights to life, to humane treatment and to personal liberty.141 In the
instant case, the Court did not rule on the State’s responsibility for the violation of any of
the said rights to the detriment of the victims. In this regard, the Court does not observe
any relationship between the measure of reparation requested and the violation declared in
this case based on errors and omissions in the Police Investigation. Furthermore, the Court
considers that this judgment and the measures of reparation ordered constitute important
and sufficient measures to repair the violation of judicial guarantees and judicial protection
declared in the instant case.
iii) Obligation to investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible for the murder
of Sétimo Garibaldi
139
Cf. Barrios Altos v. Peru. Reparations and costs. Judgment of November 30, 2001. Series C No. 87,
operative paragraph 5(d); Case of Escher et al., supra note 9, para. 239, and Case of Kawas Fernández, supra note
14, para. 199.
140
Cf. Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters, supra note 103, para. 195; Case of Escher et al., supra note 9, para.
239, and Palamara Iribarne v. Chile. Merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of November 22, 2005. Series C No.
135, para. 252.
141
Cf. Case of Castañeda Gutman, supra note 10, para. 239, and Case of Escher et al., supra note 9, para. 243.
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