the actions listed in that same charging document of 2013, is that ballistics testing was never done. c. By the same token, concerning the description of the injuries to Johan Alexis Ortiz from the projectiles, the statement by the pathologist who performed the autopsy reiterated that, given the characteristics of the bullet holes, the impact was from whole projectiles. Notwithstanding the expert’s express assertion that she did not recognize the fragments submitted by the Office of the Prosecutor and that whole projectiles, not fragments, were involved, the charging document states that the injuries were caused by shrapnel from fragmented projectiles. d. A reading of the three medical reports issued by the same doctor at El Piñal Hospital, which differ only in the identification of the people who accompanied Johan Alexis Ortiz when he was admitted wounded, but still alive, reveals other irregularities. Although there is no way of determining the reason for three medical reports on the same incident, what also stands out is the fact that they state that the alleged victim entered the hospital at 12:45 p.m., while the report submitted to the Commandant of the ESGUARNAC student corps states that the alleged victim was hit by bullets in “the rabbit hole” at the very same time. From this, another inconsistency in the judicial inspection of August 27, 1998 emerges: it was impossible to establish the exact time that the Judicial Technical Police removed the body and transferred it to the San Cristóbal morgue, which received it at around 8:00 p.m., according the parents’ testimony. e. As to the content of the declaration made by the doctor from El Piñal Hospital in 2004, she stated at the time that the body of Johan Alexis Ortiz exhibited two gunshot wounds; however, the three medical reports that she submitted in 1998 indicated the presence of only one gunshot wound, with an entry and an exit hole. Dr. Vega also stated that she had sutured only one wound. However, according to the autopsy performed by the pathologist at the San Cristóbal morgue, there were two wounds with no exit holes and the body had a total of four stitches. From the charging document issued by the Office of the Prosecutor in 2013, it does not appear that the Ministry of Public Prosecution adequately elucidated these discrepancies. f. Another piece of evidence of particular interest from a criminal standpoint was the expert opinion about the uniform that the alleged victim was wearing on the day he was wounded and died. As has been established, there are different versions regarding the state of his clothing when he entered El Piñal Hospital, which, as his parents have repeatedly said, could have helped determine whether or not Mr. Ortiz had entered the “rabbit hole.” That test was not performed until 2005, after prior denunciations by his father and mother that the clothing had been “lost” or “didn’t materialize,” added to the forensic pathologist’s technical explanation to the Office of the Prosecutor about the questions raised about whether the uniform collected during the investigation by the Office of the Military Prosecutor was the one worn by the alleged victim at the time he was wounded. g. Concerning the order for the exhumation of the body, the partial information available in the transcript of the order mentioned in the charging document issued by the Office of the Prosecutor indicates that the body was exhumed after the time in which it would have been possible to “appreciate the entry holes of the projectiles described in the autopsy report.” At the same time, there is no indication that other studies of the skeletal remains had been conducted using “systematic anthropological techniques”246 or that any study had been conducted in response to the reports that the alleged victim had been tortured prior to his 246 Article 12 of the Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary, and Summary Executions. See: I/A Court H.R, Case of Vargas Areco v. Paraguay. Judgment of September 26, 2006. Series C No. 155, Pars. 92-93.

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