Taiana said 11 officers were suspended from the Army over the death of Second Lieutenant Chirino

“I am moved, it is horrible what has happened, we found out on Sunday, the complaint was launched before the court for the dubious death of a young man, Matías (who) turned 22 on June 11. It is unacceptable that there have been excesses in a reception of welcome of companions, “said Jorge Taiana in dialogue with Radio 10.The young man, a native of the Cordoban city of Río Cuarto, died after having participated with his companions and heads of the Artillery Group No. 3 of the Argentine Army of a celebration of initiation in the military unit and the prosecutor Mauro Casco reported yesterday that the autopsy determined that the death occurred by bronchoaspiration. Chirino had to be transferred to the San José de Paso de los Libres hospital, where he later died. The Minister of Defense reported that he joined the administrative investigation of the military justice by which “the 11 officers who participated in the barbecue were suspended, for alleged very serious misconduct, there is the Justice, which has our full support.” On what happened, he said that “they were given a welcome barbecue, but there was an extraordinary consumption of alcohol and the information gives that (Matías) was not used to it, they went to sleep and the boy breaks down and dies of bronchoaspiration.” There was a deformation in the command, an abuse, that is what the father denounces, I spoke with him last night,” he added and affirmed that there has to be “zero tolerance because there is responsibility and it was a reception that went completely out of control.” Ezequiel Chirino, father of the 22-year-old, a native of the Cordoban city of Rio Cuarto, said yesterday that his son “was killed” and that it was an act of “abuse of authority” by officers of artillery Group No. 3 of the Argentine Army, based in the distant city 370 kilometers southeast of the city of Corrientes.

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