41. Luis Eduardo González González was 22 at the time, married, a medical student, worker, and member of the Communist and Revolutionary Party of Uruguay. His mother is Amalia González de González and his wife is Elena Zaffaroni Rocco, who was pregnant at the time when the facts of this case took place. Their child was born in April 1975.30 42. Oscar Tassino Asteazu was 40 years old at the time, married to Disnarda Flores de Tassino, a trade union leader in the Agrupación de la Administración de las Usinas y Teléfonos del Estado (AUTE), and a very active and militant member of the Communist Party of Uruguay. He was the father of Karina Teresa Tassino and brother of Javier Tassino and Álvaro Luis Tassino.31 D. Facts of the case and criminal investigations 1. Facts relating to Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik 43. According to statements by Jaqueline Barrios, the sister-in-law to Silvia Reyes, and María Fernández Rodríguez, Silvia Reyes's mother-in-law, who personally witnessed what happened, on April 21, 1974 a Joint Forces group comprising members of the armed forces and police, banged on the door of Washington Barrios's home, located at Mariano Soler 3098 bis, apartment 5, at 2:45 a.m. , where he was with his wife María and 10year-old daughter Jaqueline, asking for his son Washington Barrios. When they realized that he was the father, they left "shouting like hell and firing off their sub-machine guns"32 and went to apartment No. 3, across from where they were, where his son lived.33 44. By their account, the Joint Forces arrived at that apartment firing off their weapons and knocked down the door opening onto a patio opposite the apartment. From there, they fired directly at the closed door of the apartment where Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik were staying.34 They said that all three women were killed by those bursts of gunfire.35. 45. They stated that, after firing at apartment No. 3, the Joint Forces personnel had gone up to Washington Barrios's mother and asked her "where is your son as I personally am going to kill him."36 They declared that on that same day several army trucks arrived with soldiers, who went into apartment No. 3 and made off with all the furniture.37 46. Silvia Reyes's sister-in-law stated that when they entered the apartment they had found more than 200 cartridges from the shots fired and bullets stuck in the wall with pieces of scalp. She also stated that she had heard two bursts of gunfire from numerous weapons firing simultaneously for about 15 minutes.38 47. For her part, María Fernández Rodríguez, Silvia Reyes's mother-in-law, declared that: Appendix 1.1. Complaint filed by Amalia González de González regarding the disappearance of his son, Luis Eduardo González with the 10th Criminal Court of First Instance. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 31 Appendix 3.1. Complaint filed by Disnarda Flores regarding the disappearance of Oscar Tassino Asteazu. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007.. 32 Appendix 2.1. Denunciation on October 15, 1986 of the "homicide" of Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik, p.1 Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 33 Appendix 2.1. Denunciation on October 15, 1986 of the "homicide" of Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik, p.1 Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 34 Appendix 2.1. Denunciation on October 15, 1986 of the "homicide" of Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik, p. 1. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 35 Appendix 2.1. Denunciation on October 15, 1986 of the "homicide" of Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik, p. 1. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 36 Appendix 2.1. Denunciation on October 15, 1986 of the "homicide" of Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik, p. 1. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 37 Appendix 2.1. Denunciation on October 15, 1986 of the "homicide" of Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes, and Diana Maidanik, p. 2. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 38 Appendix 2.3. Testimony by Jacqueline Barrios Fernández, Silvia Reyes's sister-in-law, regarding the facts related to the deaths of Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio, and Diana Maidanik. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007; Appendix 2.17. Second testimony by Jacqueline Barrios Fernández, Silvia Reyes's sister-in-law, regarding the facts related to the deaths of Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio, and Diana Maidanik. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 30 8