On March 30, 1996, a group of men deprived of liberty who were called the ‘Twelve Apostles’ took 17 hostages, killed eight people and cooked food from their body parts.
Among the hostages were the judge María Mercedes Malére and the secretary of the Court.
What happened?
The event, which also lasted eight days, occurred in the Penal Unit Number 2 of Sierra Chica, in Argentina. The general idea of the prisoners was to escape on the Saturday of Holy Week, since it was a day when, according to them, security was lighter.
Apparently, when the prison guards opened fire on those who wanted to flee, the ‘Twelve Apostles’ responded in the same way, as they had previously managed to get a firearm into the prison.
Jorge Kröhling, a security guard who gave himself up as a hostage in exchange for one of his colleagues who was wounded, spoke in a report by the media outlet ‘Infobae’ about what this experience was like, which he described as “Hell on Earth”.
What began as an escape attempt turned into an internal war between two enemy factions inside the prison. On one side were the ‘Twelve Apostles’ and on the other, a group led by prisoner Agapito Lencinas.
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April 7, 1996. Sierra Chica Prison (Olavarría/Province of Buenos Aires). After 8 days a violent riot ends. Hostages are released and ringleaders are transferred. The government accepts claims. The internal struggle causes at least 8 deaths. pic.twitter.com/4O2AAX65X9
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Kröhling shared in the interview chilling moments he faced during those eight days: “They hurt a lot of people (the ‘Twelve Apostles’). I saw how they dismembered. The sound that a cut body makes is special, it is not like cutting up a cow. It’s not comparable to anything.”
From what the former guard of the event recalls, the level of violence that took place those days and the images he had to face were something that completely changed his life.
Specifically, he recalls that the leaders of the riot killed Agapito Lencinas, leader of their enemy group, with two bullets and two “facazos” to later gouge out his eyes and tongue and expose him “as if crucified” against a prison fence.
The bodies of the dead were piled up in a corner, and even then the torture did not end: “I saw how they grabbed a head and played ball,” the man recalls in his interview with ‘Infobae’.
A riot, empanadas of human meat, soccer with the head of a companion. These are some of the things that happened in Sierra Chica. Today I bring you:
“The 12 Apostles”. OPEN THREAD: pic.twitter.com/vJ7dDnjMs6
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However, this last game was denied by the ‘Gypsy’ Ariel Acuña, one of the ‘Apostles’, who also gave an interview to ‘Infobae’. There, the ex-convict who is now a youtuber said that this never happened and that they did not do any kind of “ritual” with the bodies.
As he explains, dismembering them and burning them in the oven of the prison kitchen was only a tactic so that there would be no trace of the events and they could not be blamed for homicide.
What “El Gitano” did confirm was the fact that the bodies of some prisoners, specifically the meat of the buttocks, were used to make empanadas to give to the security guards who, after eating, were informed of what they were made of. .
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How did it end?
As both men recall, the ‘Twelve Apostles’ surrendered to justice after eight days.
Kröhling comments to ‘Infobae’ that this was probably because the inmates were tired, “they had run out of drugs and the rest of the prison population was getting fed up. Surely they were going to end up attacking the Apostles.”
They surrendered with the sole condition of being transferred to a new enclosure.
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What happened to the ‘Twelve Apostles’?
Something that the ‘Gypsy’ clarified is that they were not twelve, nor were they apostles. According to him, the name was given because the event occurred at Easter, but those involved were around 17.
Among some of the names that justice associated with the case are Marcelo Brandán Juárez, Miguel Ángel Acevedo, Jorge Alberto Pedraza -who was identified as one of the ringleaders-, Victor Esquivel, Ariel Acuña, Carlos Villalva, among others.
In 2000, the trial for the conviction of what had happened in the riot was given and although the defendants defended themselves by saying that there were no bodies for which they could be accused of “simple homicide”, among other crimes, this was not valid due to when the authorities regained control of the penitentiary unit some inmates were missing.
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At the time, the men were sentenced to between 12 and 15 years in prison.
Their fate has not been the best, some of them continue to serve sentences after leaving and being detained again, others died in prison due to internal prison fights or released due to illness or clashes with other people.
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