2024-05-06 20:56:43
Franco Vargas died in the middle of a campaign at four thousand meters above sea level and at -15 degrees, where another 45 soldiers were also affected.
Just last April 27, a 19-year-old conscript died while doing military service in the Motorized Brigade No. 24 Huamachuco de Putre, dependent on the VI Army Division.
Franco Vargas died after carrying out an activity four thousand meters high already 15 degrees below zero. In the campaign too 45 other soldiers were affectedwho suffered a respiratory infection and eight of them remain hospitalized.
According to relatives’ stories, the conscripts received mistreatment from their superiors and carried out the activity with inappropriate clothing.
“No one gave me any explanations. They called me to tell me that in a routine Franco “He fainted and died, nothing more.”Romy Vargas, mother of the deceased conscript, told ADN.
In conversation with 24 Hours, the woman assured: ““We have testimonies that Franco did not die out of nowhere.”.
According to witnesses, the 19-year-old had asked for help several times before fainting.
“They mistreated him, beat him and humiliated him”
Romy Vargas’s lawyer, Sebastián Andrade, reported that “at five in the morning they went out for a walk in an area, on a hillside, that was approximately 4,000 meters high, with an ambient temperature of -15°, only with what they were wearing and a t-shirt. Franco warns him at that moment: colonel, I’m not fit. The colonel begins to mistreat him and tells him directly that he is a coward and a fagot“.
In this way, he assured that the soldier, in addition to not being helped, was mistreated by his superior. “Die, a soldier has to be strong and then you don’t serve the country”the commander in charge of training would have responded after Franco Vargas requested help.
After that, the Legal Medical Service established that the cause of death was a heart failuretherefore, the family of the affected person will file a civil lawsuit.
In this context, the mother of the conscript who died in Putre assured that he was a healthy man and did not have any illness. “The cause of death was the ineffectiveness of these types“, the beatings he received, the lack of help he requested and begged for,” he explained in ADN.
To which he added: “They ignored that my son was having a respiratory case and they did not want to help him, Instead they beat him and humiliated him“, hill.