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11.
In that regard, in its report of July 27, 2007 (supra Having Seen clause
No. 6), the State informed that, "the provincial government reported that the
admission of Walter Mansilla into the Public Hospital of the city of Comodoro
Rivadavia was entered in the applicable records as is usual practice in the
public health system.” In this regard, it stated that, according to Dr. José Luis
Corominas —the Director of the Comodoro Rivadavia Regional Hospital—, on
"May 24, 2007, [he was] admitted at 4.30 pm into the emergency room,
brought from the Bus Terminal by an undocumented person, suffering bilateral
pneumonia and general sepsis, showing clear signs of intoxication with alcohol
and possibly other psychotropic substances.” In addition, he reported that “as
he was being washed, he experience[d] respiratory arrest, so he was
transfer[red] to the Medical Clinic Special Care room, to be later referred to
the Intensive Care Unit of the Presidente Alvear Hospital, where he [was]
admitted and administered mechanical ventilation until June 1, 2007, when he
die[d] at 11.30 am as a result of a multiple organ failure [...].”
12.
That the Inter-American Commission has made no statement in this
regard.
13.
That the State must clarify the circumstances surrounding the death of a
beneficiary of provisional measures. In view of the specific characteristics of
the case at hand, the information submitted by the State and the
representatives is not sufficient to satisfy the Court that the death of Mr.
Mansilla was linked to the events that triggered the adoption of these
provisional measures. It is thus necessary for the State to submit a thorough
report on the issue.
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14.
That with regard to the duty to look into the events that triggered the
adoption of these measures (supra Having Seen clause No. 3, operating
paragraph No. 3 of the Order of July 6, 2006), the State reported that the
Argentine Department of Human Rights took a number of steps towards
reactivating the Special Investigation Unit. Additionally, it reported that on
March 13, 2007 the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice ruled that “the Federal
Trial Court in and for Comodoro Rivadavia has jurisdiction over the case re:
Millacura Llaipén María Leontina s/ denuncia desaparición de Persona
(Millacura-Llaipén, María Leontina over reported disappearance).”
15.
That the representatives reported that, “not even preliminary
investigations of the events that triggered the Provisional Measures before the
Court have been conducted.” Additionally, in their note of October 23, 2007,
the representatives reported that, “the proceedings against all the officers
investigated on the forced disappearance […] of Iván Eladio Torres […] have
been discontinued.” The Commission voiced its concern about the failure to
adopt specific measures aimed at prosecuting and punishing those responsible
for the events that triggered the provisional measures, so it required the State
to submit a detailed account of the investigation measures aimed at clarifying
the events that triggered the measures ordered by the Court.