Court No. 5 for Criminal and Correctional Matters of San Martin, Buenos Aires Province, issued a preventive detention warrant against Sebastián Furlan.212 107. On February 28, 1994 Sebastián Furlan went to the Police Station of Ciudadela Norte, which executed the warrant.213 That same day, the aforesaid Court No. 5 for Criminal and Correctional Matters ordered the Forensic Service Department to perform “a psychiatric evaluation [...], aimed at determining whether [Sebastián Furlan] is capable of providing a preliminary examination statement and whether he is dangerous to himself and/or to others.” The psychiatric assessment performed on Sebastián that same day indicated that he suffered from a “mixed psychiatric syndrome, post-traumatic organic mental dissociative disorder” which made him unable to “intellectually grasp the potential illegality of his conduct and to autonomously control his will” and that he “pose[d] a potential danger to himself and to others,” hand should therefore be admitted to a specialized facility for his protection and treatment.”214 108. Based on this medical opinion, on March 1, 1994 the Judge of Court No. 5 for Criminal and Correctional Matters ordered the case against Sebastián Furlan to be finally dismissed. She also took into account that the forensic examiners of the Forensic Service Department considered it “necessary for [... Sebastián] to be admitted to a specialized center for his safety and treatment, and ordered, in accordance with Article 34.1 of the Argentinean Criminal Code, due to the “danger that Sebastián [...] represents to himself and others, his internment under police custody at Hospital Evita (formely Araoz Alfaro)” (hereinafter “Hospital Evita”), “for his safety and treatment, until the conditions that make him dangerous disappear.” 215 In addition, she ordered a new assessment to be performed on Sebastián Furlan on March 21, 1994 by forensic doctors of the Forensic Service Department. The communication of April 7, 1994 issued by the Director of Hospital Evita indicated that Sebastián was “admitted on March 2, 1994; he was brought in handcuffs, on remand, and accused of serious injuries [...] he was left as an accused when in fact he [was] sick and injured.” 216 109. In the report of March 15, 1994 Hospital Evita notified Court No. 5 for Criminal and Correctional Matters of Sebastián Furlan’s “serious and dangerous family situation” due to the alleged aggressions by his father against him, and recommended that “Sebastián remain in hospital.” 217 On March 16, 1994 the Court of San Martin summoned a doctor to provide a medical statement regarding the condition of Sebastián Furlan and his father, “to 23, 1993 (file of appendices to the report, volume II, page 717). 212 Cf. Preventive detention warrant issued by the judge in the Criminal and Correctional Court on February 21, 1994 (file of appendices to the report, volume II, page 728). 213 Cf. Notification of detention (file of appendices to the report, volume II, pages 733 and 741) 214 Cf. Report submitted by two forensic examiners to the Criminal and Correctional Court No. 5 of February 28, 1994 (file of appendices to the report, volume II, pages 756 to 757). 215 Cf. Brief issued by Criminal Court No. 5 of San Martín on March 1, 1994 (file of appendices to the report, volume II, pages 760 to 761). 216 Cf. Letter from the Hospital Evita addressed to Criminal Court No. 5 of San Martín, on April 7, 1994 (file of appendices to the report, volume II, page 821). 217 Cf. Report of Hospital Evita before the Criminal Court No. 5 of San Martin of March 15, 1994 (file of appendices to the report, volume II, page 774). 37