17 Eighth Criminal Magistrate. This report dealt with the police investigation of the abduction of Maritza Urrutia and the interview that the police had had with Edmundo Urrutia. The report says “that at approximately 8.30 a.m. on July 23, 1992, unknown men detained and arrested Maritza on 5th Avenue and 1st Street in Zone 13, Guatemala City, when she was returning from the Walt Disney School.” They forced her to enter a white or gray vehicle. Then it says: “the victim left her left shoe, black with yellow and green stripes, at the place of the facts. The shoe was forwarded to this court.” He believes that this report reveals considerable difference between what the highest legal authority, the Attorney General, reported to the President of the Republic on August 19, 1992, and what appeared in the court file on the case. Those responsible for abducting Maritza are still at liberty, which places the Urrutia García family at risk, both for having filed the complaint at that time and for submitting it again before the Inter-American Court, because Maritza is evidently disobeying the conditions imposed by her abductors in 1992. During the years when he investigated the case, he was able to interview two members of the Guatemalan Army’s intelligence units, who took part in Maritza’s detention. They both said that it was a Guatemalan military intelligence unit that investigated Maritza and carried out the abduction, interrogations and liberation. These two individuals are free and never expressed any fear of being investigated, prosecuted or tried. It can be said that they operated with complete impunity, and this continues. The fact that Maritza has received a legal amnesty in no way implies that she or the members of her family are free and safe. Owing to the threats she received from her abductors, she had to continue in contact with them, and to maintain a “relationship” with the members of the Guatemalan Army who had abducted and mistreated her during the week she disappeared. Accordingly, her family considered that the best option for Maritza and her son and for her brother Edmundo, was to try and leave Guatemala and go to a country where they could be safe and not subject to threats, pressure and possibly violence from the Guatemalan Army unit that had abducted her. f. Expert report of Carlos Joaquín Bethancourt Monzón, doctor24 He met Maritza Urrutia on August 1, 1992, when he was called in as the consultant doctor of the Archdiocesan Human Rights Office. The examination he carried out consisted essentially of a series of questions, called a “case history” and a physical examination. The patient had no physical problem. He corroborated this information subsequently with a physical examination that only indicated the presence of some bruising on both ankles. He observed that Maritza had undergone a period of intense stress and that, at a determined moment, she may have suffered a situation of panic, which resulted in constant agitation and insomnia. In addition, her heart rate and rate of breathing were increased, she had lost her appetite, she was sweating, and had a few other 24 Doctor and surgeon, graduated from the Medical Sciences Faculty of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, with postgraduate studies in internal medicine in Guatemala and nephrology in Mexico City. Doctors are familiar with psychological problems through their private practice. He made his report on the psychological effects caused by the alleged torture inflicted on Maritza Urrutia, and other relevant aspects of the case.

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