dictatorship in Uruguay as a result of a coup d’état, he moved to Argentina, where he obtained refugee status from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In 1974, he reunited with his wife and their son, Anatole, in Buenos Aires. Victoria Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite was also active in the political opposition and a member of the PVP. 96 C.2. The operation of September 26, 1976 88. On the afternoon of Sunday, September 26, 1976, a police and military operation was carried out at the home of the Julien Grisonas family, located at Calle Mitre 1050, at the corner of Carlos Gardel Street in the of San Martín neighborhood, province of Buenos Aires. The operation was carried out jointly by multiple heavily armed members of the Argentine and Uruguayan security forces. Agents from the State Information Secretariat, the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Security Superintendence of the Federal Police, and military personnel participated on behalf of the Argentine forces. The agents fired on the house and cut off the electricity and telephone lines in the sector; they also deployed a large number of vehicles, including two armored cars that cut off traffic at both ends of the block. 89. During the operation, Mario Roger Julien Cáceres tried to escape from the back of the house, but was caught by the authorities. Although the initial claim was that he committed suicide by ingesting a cyanide pill, the national courts have concluded that "he was murdered" during this operation, and to date there has been no information as to the whereabouts of his remains. Meanwhile, the agents detained Victoria Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite. 90. Regarding what happened, Anatole, who was four years old at the time of the facts, has testified in multiple judicial proceedings, as well as in the public hearing before this Court, that he recalls “holding [his] mother’s hand, while she was holding [his] sister in her arms, hiding in some kind of [...] parking lot, [...] suddenly [he saw] blue sparks from shrapnel and a soldier appeared, who aimed [at] them directly.” Likewise, “minutes before that, he remembers seeing [his] father […] going to another spot and gesturing at [them] to keep silent and hide,” and “look[ing] ] back when they were taking [him] and [his] sister away and seeing [their] parents lying on the floor” with armed agents pointing guns at them, and “one of them was pulling [his] mother’s hair.” 97 91. For her part, Victoria, on the occasion of an invitation from the "Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo" Association, traveled to Argentina and went to the place where the operation took place to inquire about what had happened. There, she managed to identify a witness, Francisco Cullari, 98 who testified in multiple judicial proceedings on what happened. As for Julien Cáceres, the witness stated that he “went out into the street […] through a house that was not his and that he was carrying a wet towel with him,” but the authorities “identified him and […] they detained him.” Eventually, he saw “[his] body lying on Miter Street, by the curb outside the corner bar.” Regarding Ms. Grisonas Andrijauskaite, he stated that “two or three people lifted her to shoulder height […], held her parallel to the ground and dropped her over and over again, repeating this procedure until someone ordered them to stop.” He added that "the man was lifted from the floor and placed in a vehicle, while the woman was taken away Cf. Brief filed on November 19, 2012 by Eduardo Marques Iraola, on behalf of Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez, before Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 3, case No. 2637/04 (evidence file, volume I, annex 4 to the Report on the Merits, folio 1442) and writ of application that appears in case file 14,846/96 (evidence file, volume XV, evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, folio 17836). See Office of Human Rights for the recent past, Eastern Republic of Uruguay, detainees disappeared due to State responsibility and/or acquiescence, file on Julien Cáceres, Mario Roger, file L.D.D. No. 064 (supra footnote 37). 97 Cf. Statement of Anatole Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez, given in a public hearing before this Court, and statements of the same person that appear in: 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, folio 787). 98 Cf. Testimony of Claudia Victoria Larrabeiti Yáñez, found in the 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 15429). 96 26