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Retired Rear Admiral Luis Enrique López Mazzeo, former Commander of Training and Enlistment of the Argentine Navy and one of the defendants in the case for the sinking of the ARA San Juan, assured that the government of Mauricio Macri knew perfectly well the location of the damaged submarine at least since December 5, 2017, that is, 20 days after his disappearance.
“When you see all the documentation, you will realize that we, when I had to sign the most painful message in my entire career which was the closing of the SAR case (for search and rescue) tWe had detected the position of the submarine and that is why we had coordinated with the British Navy on December 5 (2017) the order for an autonomous vehicle, because we knew that it could only be in two canyons, which was what we could not verify with all the required international means, “said the former official in a statement – consigned by Infobae – before the Comodoro Rivadavia Appeals Chamber to defend himself from the prosecution that on January 31, a federal judge ordered him.
It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that it is publicly recognized that the “contact” made by the Chilean ship “Cabo de Hornos” through sonar belonged to the ARA San Juan. The position was revealed by the scientific ship belonging to the Chilean Navy but the information was minimized and later dismissed by the Argentine naval command and the government.
López Mazzeo’s statements generated outrage among the relatives of the 44 deceased crew members and the plaintiffs’ lawyers who represent them. Let us remember that the remains of the submarine ARA San Juan, which disappeared with its crew since November 15, 2017, were located on November 17, 2018 on the seabed at 800 meters of depth in the South Atlantic. However, this latest announcement aroused suspicions at the time, especially since the Seabed Constructor ship —of the American company Ocean Infinity— left for its last day of search the area that the Cabo de Hornos ship had identified a year earlier and that United Kingdom and United States navies had advised exploring in depth.
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