In 2014, the Federal Oral Tribunal of Córdoba N° 2 delivered the sentence on the case, condemning four high functionaries of the state-owned corporation Fabricaciones Militares, all of them engineers and retired military men, to ten and thirteen years in prison, for the crime of Intentional Havoc Aggravated by the death of people in a degree of co-authorship.
The factory was situated 200 metres away from the limit of the urban area, and the blast leveled dozens of houses and seriously damaged hundred of homes.
The seven people that died (Romina Torres, Laura Muñoz, Aldo Aguirre, Leonardo Solleveld, Hoder Dalmasso, Elena Rivas de Quiroga, and José Varela) were all unrelated to the factory, just like most of the injured.
Thousands of people fled the city to the neighboring towns, and stayed in squares and friendly houses, while the inhabitants helped them by providing food, water and telephone access to communicate with their families.
That same day at 17:00 PM, President Carlos Menem flew to Río Tercero and held a press conference, in which he stated that the explosions started by accident.
The first two happened simultaneously in the cargo plant and the shipping and storage warehouse, with the latter being the strongest of the two, with the intent to redirect the shock wave away from the workers inside the factory.
[5] In the days before the incident, an excessive amount of TNT and crates of 105 mm cannon projectiles were stockpiled on the Cargo Plant, something both unusual and dangerous.