according to witnesses who saw her there, over a period of about 10 days, she was interrogated and tortured, forced to write a letter claiming participation in guerrilla group opposing the government, and photographed in a staged setting in front of a montoneros banner. that group of detainees, including sister léonie duquet, was "transferred", a euphemism for being taken out and killed. bodies washed up on beaches south of buenos aires in december 1977 and were quickly buried in mass graves, but a march 1978 agence france-presse article reported that the bodies of the missing two french nuns and others associated with the mothers were believed to have been among them.