2023-07-11 16:08:39
The policemen accused of the crime of Lucas (Maximiliano Luna)
Judges Ana Dieta de Herrero, Daniel Navarro and Marcelo Bartumeu Romero, in charge of the Oral Criminal Court No. 25 of Buenos Aires, sentenced the police officers accused of killing Lucas González, the 17-year-old adolescent who was murdered on November 17 of 2021, at the entrance of the villa Zavaleta in Barracas.
The main defendants are inspector Gabriel Alejandro Isassi (42), senior officer Juan José López (48) and officer Fabián Andrés Nieva (38), members of the Brigades and Summaries Division 6 of Commune 4 of the City Police .
Thus, Isassi received a life sentence, as determined by the court. López and Nieva also received the same penalty.
The three were not only convicted of Lucas’s crime. They were also accused of trying to kill the young man’s three friends who were with him in the car at the time of the incident. The case was investigated by the prosecutor Leonel Gómez Barbella. They were also accused of illegal deprivation of liberty and ideological falsehood.
On the other hand, another 12 police officers were charged in the case for covering up the incident, with accusations such as unlawful deprivation, torture and falsehood, aggravated by their conditions as police officers. Two others were charged with false testimony.
Héctor Cuevas was sentenced to 4 years in prison for helping Isassi alter the evidence of the crime, a fact aggravated by his status as a police officer. Juan Horacio Romero received 6 years for covering up, particularly for helping Isassi.
The sentence was read in the AMIA auditorium of the Comodoro Py courts, with its ground floor and first floor full, together with a strong demonstration of family, friends and social organizations in the street. The process, which began on March 16, included more than 50 witnesses, including former Buenos Aires Minister of Justice and Security Marcelo D’Alessandro, who complicated the accused police officers with his account.
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Friends of Lucas asked for Justice before the verdict (Maximiliano Luna)
Isassi is also suspected of being the one who planted the weapon in the victims’ car, as revealed weeks ago by inspector Héctor Cuevas, one of the 12 agents arrested for cover-up, of whom 11 will be tried this Tuesday. In addition, they are accused of the crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty and in the case of officer Sebastián Baidón, of torture, for the treatment he gave to Zuñiga.
Attorney General Guillermo Pérez de la Fuente raised a qualification that occupies an entire paragraph once morest the three most complicated police officers: aggravated homicide for having been committed with a firearm, treachery, racial hatred and pleasure, in a premeditated contest of two or more people and for being members of a security force, and ideological falsehood and illegitimate deprivation of liberty.
Gabriel Isassi, the most complicated of policemen (NA: MARIANO SANCHEZ)
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The defense lawyers of these three agents, Fernando Soto and Martín Sarubbi, demanded the acquittal, since they considered that they “fulfilled their duty” in the framework of an alleged operation that was investigating an alleged marijuana seller who had his bunker meters away. the field where the victims trained.
“I felt a lot of helplessness. She treated them like drug addicts. I am angry to this day. After everything they did,” Lucas’s mother told this medium in an interview published this Monday.
The arguments of the verdict will be known later. The reading of the sentence was attended by Lucas’s parents, the three friends who survived the attack and the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, Horacio Pietragalla.
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