The second trial against Massera starts tomorrow with three witnesses

Human Rights Secretary's Office, Argentine lawyer Luis Eduardo Duhalde, and the Consul of Italy in Argentina during the dictatorship, the Italian Enrico Calamai, "who saved the lives of many persecuted" by the dictatorship testify at the hearing tomorrow , told Efe the attorney for the victims, Jorge Iturburu.

It will also present the coach of the Spanish Volleyball Team, Julio Velasco, who during the dictatorship was a professor of philosophy "and saw her students began to disappear", he told Efe Iturburu.

Velasco, who later left teaching to devote himself to volleyball, will have to judge "the political and philosophical origins of the coup," he added.

In 2005 the summary by the former dictator's alleged involvement in the disappearance, torture and murder of Italian Aietta Angela Gullo, Giovanni Pegoraro and his daughter Susana between 1976 and 1977 was suspended for an expert report which determined that the defendant suffered from "dementia .

But last March 4, the Rome Court judge accepted a new framework Mancinetti medical expert's report certifying that Massera, 83 and whose case was separate from the main process for the deaths of the three Italians, was in "full power" to face the process.

Eduardo Luis Duhalde told EFE that what can make in the trial "is how the detention camp at the Navy Mechanical School, where the Italian victims disappeared giving rise to this lawsuit and at the same time explaining that he had total responsibility Admiral Emilio Massera as master of life and death of prisoners came to be about 5,000.

Efe said the lawyer for the victims, Marcello Gentilli, Duhalde's testimony is crucial because it can reconstruct Massera responsibility not only through official channels, but also directly in the crimes committed in the detention and torture center in Buenos Aires .

The former dictator integrated with Jorge Rafael Videla and Héctor Agosti's first military junta that ruled Argentina and ran the ESMA in Buenos Aires, the detention and torture center, where they were taken and subsequently disappeared three Italians.

Angela Gullo Aietta disappeared August 5, 1976 after being detained for supporting the regime's opponents, among whom was his son Juan Carlos Dante Gullo, current deputy in Argentina.

After his arrest on 18 June 1977 in the ESMA, nor was ever news Pegoraro and his daughter Susanna, Peronist, who gave birth to a daughter during his detention that was given to a family.