Jorge Alberto Palacios
Jorge Alberto Palacios, also known as "Fino" Palacios is a controversial Argentine policeman.[1]
Jobs
In 2009 he was appointed by Mauricio Macri to lead the Metropolitan Police, the new police force of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. This designation was questioned by the public, because of charges levied on him.[2][3]
Accusations and Controversies
He is currently processed by the AMIA court case, "considered a necessary participant in the crime of concealment, author criminally responsible for the crime of abuse of authority and author of the crime of violation of evidence."[1][3][4][5]
Previously he was prosecuted for the causes of repression and killing of protesters in 2001, which was finally acquitted by the Federal chamber.[6] It is also publicly linked to the kidnapping of Axel Blumberg, the son of Carlos Blumberg, although Palacios defends by saying that "is an invention, as reflected in the sayings of the father" of the victim.[6]
For his part, Fino Palacios denies all allegations and claims that there is a "smear campaign" against him.[6]
He is also controversial for his book Terrorismo en la aldea global (Terrorism in the global village), especially the bias of its analysis. Especially, he asserts that "Argentina was the theater of Marxist revolutionaries who sow violence and terror in the citizenry", but does not mention the state-sponsored terrorism in Argentina at all.
Spy scandal
In October 2009, Sergio Burnstein, one of the leaders of the Jewish community who had led the opposition against the appointment of Fino Palacios as Chief of Police (because of its connections with the terrorist attack on the AMIA), he denounced in court was being spied on by the Police of the City of Buenos Aires.[7] Shortly thereafter, the Justice observed that in fact, Burnstein was being spied upon by a band that would be part Fino and his successor Osvaldo Palacios Chamorro, a federal police lawyer who worked for the Ministry of Education of Buenos Aires (Ciro James), two judges of the Province of Misiones, among others.[7]
The investigation revealed that the spying included opposition leaders and even leaders Macri's own party as well as businessmen, trade unionists and their families between the Head of Government, as the spies had illegally tapped the phone of his brother-in-law, a parapsychologist who had been threatened by the father of Macri, industrialist Franco Macri. In December 2009, were arrested for this case Fino Palacios, Osvaldo Ciro Chamorro and James, while he had to give the Education Minister Mariano Narodowski, by assuming the place the writer Abel Posse.[8]
References
- ^ a b El juez Lijo procesó a Menem y Galeano por el encubrimiento del atentado a la AMIA, Centro de información judicial.
- ^ Nueva Policía: polémica designación de Macri, perfil.com.
- ^ a b Memoria activa exige la revisión inmediata del nombramiento de Fino Palacios como titular de la nueva policía de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Agencia judía de noticias.
- ^ “Tuvo función de mando y control”
- ^ Causa AMIA: Los familiares de las víctimas ya desconfiaban de Palacios desde el juicio por el atentado
- ^ a b c Jorge "Fino" Palacio se defendió: "No soy político, soy policía", perfil.com.
- ^ a b Quién es Ciro James, el policía que espiaba... ¿para Macri? (Who is Ciro James, the policeman who spy... for Macri?), Terra.
- ^ Confirman procesamiento de Palacios y James por asociación ilícita , Centro de información judicial.