Crime of Candela Rodríguez: a drug trafficker, a former police officer, a “buchón” and a carpenter will be accused in the second trial

2024-03-03 20:47:00

Twelve and a half years after Candela Sol Rodríguez (11) was found dead inside a consortium bag in the Buenos Aires district of Hurlingham, will be carried out the second oral trial for the kidnapping and crime of the girl, committed in August 2011 in Villa Tesei. For this reason, starting next Tuesday, a drug lord, a former Buenos Aires police officer, a “buchón” from the security forces and a carpenter will sit in the dock.

The only one who will be imprisoned in the debate that will be in charge of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 6 of Morón is the drug trafficker Miguel Ángel “Mameluco” Villalba (61), who is housed in the Federal Penitentiary Complex I of Ezeiza, where he is serving a 27-year prison sentence for drug trafficking.

The clandestine life of a femicide who managed to mock Justice

According to the prosecutor’s accusation Mario Ferrariowho will also perform in the debate, “Mameluco” Villalba, the “buchón” Héctor Horacio “Topo” Moreira (57), the former Buenos Aires police officer Sergio Fabián Chazarreta (62) and the carpenter Nestor Ramon Altamirano (67) were “co-authors” from “unlawful deprivation of liberty followed by death” de Candela. With the exception of Villalba, the other three men are free.

For the same crime, in August 2017 Hugo Bermúdez and Leonardo Jara were sentenced to life imprisonmentwhile a third man, Fabián Gómez (46), received a four-year sentence of confinement as “secondary participant” of the “illegal deprivation of liberty” of the girl.

Hugo Bermúdez was sentenced to life in prison in August 2017 for the “illegal coercive deprivation of liberty followed by death” of Candela.

In this new debate, which will begin at 9:30 with the reading of the elevation to trial in the courts located at Cristóbal Colón 151, in Morón, the conduct displayed by each of the four accused will be aired. over 10 hearings and with the appearance of more than 100 witnesses

The first testimonial statement, scheduled for Wednesday the 6th, will be that of the girl’s mother, Carola Labradorwho will face all the accused, since “Mameluco” will be taken daily from the prison to the courts to participate in the debate, within the framework of a strong security operation.

The kidnapping of Candela Rodríguez

Candela Sol Rodríguez
Leonardo Jara was also sentenced to life in August 2017 for the kidnapping and subsequent crime of Candela.

The kidnapping began around 3:30 p.m. on August 22, 2011.on the corner of the house where he lived, located Coraceros and Bustamante, in Villa Tesei, Hurlingham district.

That day Candela planned to meet friends from her Scout group. However, while she was waiting for them standing on the corner was approached by at least three peoplewho forced her into a black Ford EcoSport truck, whose rear license plate was covered, and took her to a home in Loma Hermosa, Tres de Febrero district.

At dawn on August 29, faced with an imminent police raid, Candela was taken to another address, located at Kiernan 992 in Villa Tesei, where it is believed that, between the night of that day and the morning of the 30th, She was abused and suffocated by the already convicted Bermúdez.

The evidence: the washing of the body and the origin of the truck and the homes

From the investigation it emerged that the victim’s body was washed to hide traces before being abandoned in a consortium bag thrown on the side of the Western Motorway, also in Hurlingham.

Among the elements of evidence obtained in the case, it emerged that The van in which the girl was kidnapped had been provided by former police officer Chazarreta and that it was registered in the name of his partner, who is also the niece of the “buchón” Moreira.

It was also determined that The first address in which Candela was held captive was that of “Topo” Moreira -whom the girl knew because he was close to her father-, while the second home to which they took her before killing her was uninhabited and It was provided by the carpenter Altamiranowho was in charge of supervising the captivity, according to the accuser.

Candela Sol Rodríguez
The house at 992 Kierman Street, the second home where Candela was presumed kidnapped.

For the prosecutor, the change of address was carried out after The former Buenos Aires police officer Chazarreta warned his accomplices that the security forces were about to raid Moreira’s house. “The transfer was due to the imminent arrival of prevention to the place where they were holding and hiding the minor, which actually happened on August 30, 2011,” the prosecutor explained in the request for elevation to trial to which he had access. Telam.

Finally, On August 31, between 1:30 p.m. and 3:20 p.m., the girl’s body was abandoned on the side of Cellini Street, a few meters from the Western Highway collector.

Carola Labrador, mother of the victim: “There is no trial that will bring Candela back alive”

Shortly after the start of the second trial for his daughter’s crime, Labrador assured that he will not give anything back to the girl, although he wants to “close this stage so that she can rest in peace.” “There is no trial that will bring Candela back alive, but I want justice”expressed in dialogue with Telam.

I just want to close the entire stage of the crime, that she can rest in peace and that I can continue working for her, helping other families going through similar issues. “I carry my pain and my struggle day by day, until God decides that he has to leave and reunite with my Cande,” she added.

Candela Sol Rodríguez
Carola Labrador, Candela’s mother, will be the first to testify in the new trial.

Regarding the debate that will begin on Tuesday, the girl’s mother announced that is prepared to face it “more fully” and recalled that he collaborates with the support network for families who need help in these types of cases, from the organization Atravesados ​​por el Femicide.

“I will continue to honor my daughter’s name until the end of my days. Today many people want to know how many others participated in some way in her crime,” said Labrador, who, when specifically referring to the accused drug trafficker, expressed: “If ‘Mameluco’ Villalba had something to do with something, let him pay for it”.

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