speak out in the aftermath of Agostini's death, including José Antonio Echeverría and René Anillo, both leaders of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE). Several Batista opposition parties in the Cuban Congress also denounced the killing with the Parliamentary Committee of the Authentic Party addressing a letter to the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Justice in which they demanded the broadest possible impartial investigation of what occurred. Agostini's widow, Emma Surí, initiated a legal case where she presented a private accusation to the Emergency Court of Havana. This resulted in the ordered the release of Dr. Huerta and two others who has been accused by the police, but the court refused to hear the case against the government bodies accused in his killing and passed them to the Investigating Court of the Fourth Section, where Judge Waldo Bacallo initiated a case in which Julio Laurent was listed as the main defendant in the murder of Agostini. Manuel Antonio Varona Loredo, President of the Authentic Party, assumed the representation of Agostini's widow and acted as prosecutor in the summary. After several months, shortly before concluding the investigation of the case to determined the guilt of Laurent and Heriberto Izquierdo, the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice abruptly invalidated the civilian capacity to continue hearing the case and transferred it to the military jurisdiction, where it was quickly dismissed. Personal life Jorge Agostini was married to fellow Cuban athlete Enma Gloria Surís Ramírez. They had two children, Rodolfo Jorge and María Teresa and he also had a daughter, Sonia Agostini Fuentes, from a previous marriage. References External links 1910 births 1955 deaths People from Mayarí Cuban male fencers Cuban revolutionaries Fencers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1951 Pan American Games Olympic fencers of Cuba Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Cuban murder victims Deaths by firearm in Cuba Male murder victims Pan American Games medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)