alive." As for Anatole and Victoria, he stated that he had “asked that they be turned over […]
to his custody […] [without] receiving a response from the captors.” 99
C.3. Detention in “Automotores Orletti” and subsequent transfer of Anatole
and Victoria to Uruguay and Chile
92. After her detention, Victoria Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite was taken to Automotores
Orletti. Anatole and Victoria were first taken by the agents to a service station and later driven
to the same center. There, Grisonas Andrijauskaite was subjected to torture and inhuman
conditions of detention; her whereabouts remain unknown.
93. In October 1976, Anatole and Victoria were transferred secretly, by air—via the so-called
“second flight” 100—to Uruguay, where they were held at the headquarters of the Defense
Information Service (SID) in the city of Montevideo. The presence of both in Uruguay was
established by this Court in the case of Gelman v. Uruguay. 101
94. Subsequently, Anatole and Victoria were transferred to Chile, also by air, and abandoned
in O'Higgins Plaza in the city of Valparaíso on December 22, 1976, where they were found by
Chilean authorities. Initially they were housed at a shelter, and then they were separated and
taken to different houses. In the end, Anatole and Victoria were placed "in the custody and
care" of a married couple: Jesús Larrabeiti Correa and Sylvia Yáñez Vera, a dental surgeon
and teacher, respectively, of Chilean nationality with no connection to the repressive
apparatus. They were granted “judicial custody” in June 1977. 102
C.4. The search for and discovery of Anatole and Victoria by their biological
grandmother
95. Following what had happened, the paternal grandmother of Anatole and Victoria—María
Angélica Cáceres de Julien—began searching for them. In doing so, she undertook multiple
procedures before State institutions in Argentina and Uruguay, international organizations,
and non-governmental organizations. She also reported the disappearance of her relatives to
CONADEP, whose final report included files 2950 and 2951 on the disappearances of Victoria
Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite and Mario Roger Julien Cáceres, respectively. Ms. Cáceres de
Julien likewise filed different habeas corpus actions on behalf of her son, her daughter-in-law,
her grandson, and her granddaughter. However, she received no response or information from
the Argentine authorities.
96. Through the multiple steps taken in her search, and with the support of different people
and entities—especially the organization Clamor of the Archbishopric of São Paulo—Ms.
Cf. Testimony of Francisco Cullari appearing in: Resolution issued by the National Federal Criminal and
Correctional Court No. 3 on May 19, 2011, case No. 2637/04 (evidence file, volume I, annex 1 to the Report on the
Merits, folios 100 and 101), and judgment issued by Federal Oral Criminal Court No. 1 on May 31, 2011, case No.
1627 (evidence file, volume I, annex 2 to the Report on the Merits, folios 444 and 445).
100
According to Anatole, he remembers having “[gone] via a small plane […] and [he] was allowed to go to the
cabin and in the cabin he saw big mountains covered in snow and also [he] was fascinated by the steering wheel, the
crank.” Cf. Statement by Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez, given at a public hearing before this Court. The Argentine
courts have concluded that “the secret transfer […] by air of the group of hostages of Uruguayan nationality […] [was]
carried out by the Uruguayan Air Force […] on at least two occasions ('first and second flight’).” Cf. Judgment issued
by Federal Oral Criminal Court No. 1 on August 9, 2016, case No. 1504, 1951, 2054, and 1976 (evidence file, volume
IV, annex 8 to the answering brief, folios 4674 and 4675).
101
Cf. Case of Gelman v. Uruguay, supra, par. 86. The Court established that María Claudia García Iruretagoyena
and her daughter, María Macarena Gelman García, were “held in a room on [the] ground floor” of the SID, together
with “the Julien-Grisonas siblings, with whom they shared the […] space."
102
See judgment issued by the Third Juvenile Court of First Instance of Valparaíso, Chile, on June 28, 1990, case
No. 4,527, cited in: Judgment issued by Federal Oral Criminal Court No. 6 on September 17, 2012, cases No. 1351,
1499, 1604, 1584, 1730, and 1772 (evidence file, volume IV, annex 18 to the answering brief, folio 15425).
99
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