66. Ángel Acosta Martínez reported that following the death of his brother, both he and his mother received anonymous threats.113 Thus, on April 23, 1996, National Criminal Investigation Court No. 10 sent an official letter to the president of the Chamber of Criminal and Correctional Appeals of the Federal Capital informing him of the death threats reported by Ángel Acosta Martínez and the alleged theft of items from the home of his deceased brother.114 67. On April 24, 1996, Ángel Acosta Martínez sent a letter to the Uruguayan Consul in Buenos Aires requesting immediate protection from the threats received by him, his mother, and the Uruguayan family that had sheltered them.115 On April 29, 1996, the Consulate sent a letter to the Head of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Federal Police requesting that the pertinent measures be taken.116 68. On April 30, 1996, a statement was taken from Ángel Acosta Martínez regarding the threats received.117 He indicated that, on April 6 of that same year, he had gone to his brother's home and found that several personal photographs were missing and that several medical documents had been moved.118 He also reported that he and his mother needed to change their residence because they had received threats that, in the end, led Ms. Martínez to return to Uruguay.119 Ángel Acosta Martínez also indicated that he was the victim of two suspicious incidents of abuse. In one, the police threatened him in public with a firearm and told him to “stop pushing.” In the other, while he was with his baby son and about to get a on train, they hit him in the face with the butt of a gun and told him “this will happen to someone else, cut it out.”120 Finally, in 2004, they hit him with a car, and according to his statement at the public hearing, caused injuries to his pelvis, wrists, shoulder, and ankle. In his statement of April 22, 1996, he indicated that he had moved his mother to the home of some friends and there “began to be (sic) telephone threats and other silent calls. That one of those threats asked to speak to Ms. Acosta or Acosta's mother. That the owner of the house answered the call, and she didn't say if she was there or not. A male voice gave her the following message: “Tell her to stop fucking around, not to continue (sic)," to the point that they became very nervous, so much so that the residents went to Uruguay." Also, in that same statement, he indicated that he wanted to “report that someone entered his brother's house, not knowing who although he assumes it was the police, indicating that they took his brother's effects and other things, including photographs and information on his illness, related to Hepatitis B” (statement made before the Investigating Judge by Ángel Acosta Martínez on April 22, 1996—evidence file, folios 208 to 209). This was reiterated in his testimony at the public hearing before this Court. 113 Cf. Communication from the Court of Appeals to the President of the National Chamber of Appeals of April 23, 1996 (evidence file, folios 492 to 493). 114 Cf. Letter sent to the Consul of Uruguay in Buenos Aires by Ángel Acosta Martínez on April 24, 1996 (evidence file, folio 498). 115 Cf. Official letter 322/96 from the Uruguayan Consulate in Buenos Aires of April 29, 1996 (evidence file, folio 500). 116 Cf. Statement given by Ángel Acosta Martínez before the Investigating Judge on April 30, 1996 (evidence file, folios 502 to 503). 117 During the public hearing, Ángel Acosta Martínez indicated that they took documents on tests related to his brother’s hepatitis B. 118 In her statement before this Court, Mary Chagas, the sister of the person who let Ms. Blanca Martínez and Ángel Martínez stay in his home after the death of José Delfín Acosta Martínez, explained that “after the death of José Ángel, she could not return to the house where he was, so she went to live in the house of my brother, Carlos William Chagas. Then Angel and my brother and his wife and son had to leave that house because of the threats. My brother was afraid for his son, who was very little.” (Statement made before a notary public by Mary Chagas on February 28, 2020, evidence file, folios 1450-1451). 119 120 Statement made by Ángel Acosta Martínez at the public hearing before this Court. 23