My daughter-in-law's body carried out by the company in a coffin was naked, with her abdomen and sides wasted; one ear was missing and she had bullet wounds to her face and forehead. It was inside the apartment that they killed them, behind the door, where there was blood everywhere, with the wall opposite punctured by bullet holes and the girls' hair hanging from the bullets on the wall opposite, along with bullets stuck in the wall and the linings of the wall sticking out where the bullets had hit (...).39 48. One of Silvia Reyes's neighbors also declared that: (...) The shooting, the bullets kept coming for 5 or 7 minutes, or 10, who knows, until they stopped firing, and the military and girls in the apartment next door started shouting, the girls screaming that they mustn't fire, mustn't kill them, after which there was a burst of machine gun fire which made my walls shake, and then the firing stopped completely. (…).40 49. On the other hand, the file contains the Joint Forces version, according to which the alleged victims' deaths occurred in a fight-out with them. According to the communique issued by the Joint Forces press office, on April 21, 1974, at 2:50 a.m., the Joint Forces raided the property located at Ramón de Santiago No 3086, apartment No 3. The Joint Forces stated that after knocking on the door to no avail, they had forced open the door and were met with a heavy round of shots from several weapons."41 The press release states that: During the exchange of fire, the insurgents tossed powerful hand grenades at them, acquired from Argentina, In light of the dangerousness and heavy weaponry of the criminals, it was decided to use full force to quell them, at which point a senior officer of the Joint Forces trying to enter the room where the mafiosi were hiding was seriously wounded point blank by massive shorts to the neck and spine. When some of the Joint Forces personnel tried to rescue the wounded officer, one of the Heads of the Joint Forces was shot in the arm, in another heavy burst of gunfire.- When the security forces finally managed to enter the insurgents' hideout, they found three dead females, namely those who had met the Joint Forces personnel involved with a heavy burst of gunfire.42 50. Three Joint Forces agents backed that version of what had happened. One stated that: (...) I enter the room and to my right, in a corner, there were three women clinging to each other, a horrific sight for anyone to see. No doubt they were hiding behind the door, in a corner between two walls, to the right of the door. I see that one of the women has a grenade pin on one of her fingers and her right hand (I don't know which woman it was) in a bag. I go up and look into the open bag and found that hand clutching a grenade, and there was something else in that bag [...]. The other dead women had weapons, too. I remember a 38 caliber revolver, grenades, and handguns. None of them had submachine guns or anything like that. I don't remember seeing submachine guns but maybe they had them. They definitely had handguns.43 51. In a press release on July 12, 1974, the Joint Forces' Press Office reported the death of the Joint Forces officer who had been seriously wounded in the operation in which Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio, and Diana Maidanik died, on July 11, 1974.44 2. Complaint and investigation of the facts Appendix 2.4. Testimony by María Fernández Rodríguez, Silvia Reyes’s mother-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. 40 Appendix 2.21. Testimony by Hugo Néstor Conde, one of Silvia Reyes's neighbors, 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. 41 Appendix 2.11. Press release No. 1090 of the Joint Forces' Press Office, giving their version of the facts relating to the deaths of Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio, and Diana Maidanik. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 42 Appendix 2.11. Press release No. 1090 of the Joint Forces' Press Office, giving their version of the facts relating to the deaths of Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio, and Diana Maidanik. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 43 Appendix 2.14. Statement by Joint Forces agent Jose Nino Gavazzo Pereira, giving his version of the facts relating to the deaths of Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio, and Diana Maidanik. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 44 Appendix 2.15. Press release of the Joint Forces' Press Office, reporting the death of the officer wounded during the operation in which Silvia Reyes, Laura Raggio, and Diana Maidanik died.. Appended to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007; Annex 2.16. Medical records of joint forces officer Julio Cesar Gutiérrez. Attached to the petitioner’s brief of August 15, 2007. 39 9