For family environments five people from Rosario who died in the terrorist attack in New York, which took place on October 31, 2017, this new anniversary is special. While they continue to live in a trance of suffocating pain, at least a few days ago, after so much waiting, started the trial to convict the Uzbek terrorist Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, which invested a group of cyclists among which were these former students of the San Martín General Polytechnic Institute, who had traveled to celebrate 30 years of graduation in that educational entity of the city.
In this context, of searches for answers and signs of relief that never arrive, At 6pm today, at 4pm, an act will be held in the atrium of the emblematic Ayacucho school. On this occasion it was the authorities of the Polytechnic who conceived and organized it tribute and remembrance event. And they have had gestures of approval from the relatives of the fatal victims.
According to what was leaked, within that activity a mural will be presentedMade by the students of a school in Buenos Aires, which will be installed in the Poli. For sure, it will be one of the most exciting moments of the act.
In this scenario, the widows of Hernan Mendoza, Diego Angelini, Alejandro Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernan Ferruchi, They are still waiting for justice to be done and are preparing to testify in the United States before the accused.
patience and resignation
“We need to believe in Justice, and we get excited thinking that in the first world everything would have gone faster, but it didn’t; we had to load ourselves with patience and resignation”Wrote Vera Dargoltz, the wife of Hernán Ferruchi, on the social network Facebook. Both she and the other couples are waiting and sensitive to what might happen.
And this five years is a long time”Explained Ana Evans, the widow of Hernán Mendoza. However, she explained that during that time he “grew stronger and learned to understand a judicial process of something happening in another country”. But he complained about what in these cases, in her opinion, happens to the deceased, to the direct relatives of the deceased: “The system makes us invisible and the process does not take us into account”.
However, that very time he spoke of is “scarce for families “ who have to deal with cases of this kind. “It takes very little for the understanding, the transformation of the pain and the acceptance of what happened, basically for the boys,” she said. He also accused the Argentine state, which, he indicated, did not provide “any kind of help or accompaniment” to people affected by terrorism.
Thus, suffering and missing, with traces still open, families are still waiting to travel, which could happen towards the end of this year or January 2023.
It was last Tuesday, October 11, when the jury selection process who will intervene in the process and define its future (a beginning of the cause, technically). First, it will be necessary to present evidence and evidence and listen to the women of this city, among other testimonies.
It will be on that occasion that Evans, Dargoltz and the wives of Alejandro Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Diego Angelini will talk about the direct effects that the event had on their lives and that of their families.
And they will have to face Saipov, with all that that means. At that point Evans stopped talking to La Capital. “All of this is so terrible and so little explored in the world that no one has prepared us for that instance”, He marked to refer to the“ loneliness ”of those affected.
Evans’ lawyer, Juan Félix Marteau, insisted with this Buenos Aires newspaper that, following the determination of the North American Attorney General Merrill Garland to discard a plea deal with the defendant (which involved the abandonment of the death penalty application) , apply this punishment. The families await what the jury will decide, but have no doubts that the Uzbek will be found guilty.
