Puricelli about the Santa Trinidad ship: “I do not rule out an attack”

January 22, 2013
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The Defense Minister Arturo Puricelli said today about Santisima Trinidad ship, which is moored at the dock of Puerto Belgrano, “It is possible that there has been a great incompetence or laziness on the part of the guard.”

The minister felt “striking that ended with the theme of the frigate Libertad”, held illegally in Ghana for 77 days by the complaint of a vulture fund, and now “happens when the President (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner) has just completed a tour very successful in Asia.”

At the same time, the official confirmed that directed the Navy chief, Admiral Daniel Martin, for which issues an internal summary “because it has to be accountability that did not meet minimum care” on the ship.

Speaking to Telam, Puricelli said they must first “determine the circumstances that led to the sinking of the ship. Personally, I have great doubts, because it is a ship that generationally is not that old, who is from the seventies, and there are others like Sarmiento vessels with more than one hundred years and not have sunken to be tied.”