2023-04-22 04:31:31
In the exclusive Silveira neighborhood, in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), some neighbors found out just this week that they were living next door to a Colombian rapist and murderer.
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There they believed that he was a prosperous and discreet businessman who spoke little and dedicated himself to running the local Mult Lav, an industrial laundry located near the local airport.
they told him Henrique Dos Santos Abdala. That was the false identity that he had processed on the black market after fleeing Colombia in 1994, with hands stained with blood.
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But in Brazilian public offices he presented himself with his real name, Jaime Saade Cormane, member of a prestigious family on the Coast, sentenced to 27 years in prison.
And Barranquilla court found him responsible for the rape and murder of Nancy Mestre, a young woman he was courting.
‘Come back at 3’
Show he had become obsessed with Nancy, a pretty 18-year-old college girl.
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He On December 31, 1994, he showed up at his house and, taking advantage of the fact that he looked younger, he asked Martín Mestre for permission. (Nancy’s father) to take her to a New Year’s Eve party with her circle of friends.
“Come back at 3, not a minute later,” Mestre told his daughter. And she asked Saade to take care of her. But neither one nor the other happened.
Mestre, an architect by profession, received a call telling him that his daughter had committed suicide. He assures that he managed to see her alive when she arrived at the Caribbean Clinic. But she died eight days later.
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At necropsy, which Nancy’s father knows it by heart, says that a shot from a 45-caliber weapon was found in the body that entered through the right parietal. Also sexual penetration, abuse and beatings. And there is additional information: traces of blood different from Nancy’s and her attacker’s were found: O +.
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This means that there were other partners in the rape and crimewho today continue in impunity.
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While The Colombian authorities were inquiring about the whereabouts of Saade, the convicted man led a quiet life 7,290 kilometers from Barranquilla, in Belo Horizonte.
Although he claimed to be innocent, EL TIEMPO had access to documents that prove that Saade suddenly withdrew 25 million pesos from banks. And under the identity of Henrique dos Santos Abdala he settled in the Silveira neighborhood, a coveted town for its luxurious residences.
Meanwhile, In Colombia, Martín Mestre, Nancy’s father, desperately began to search for the person responsible for the murder of his daughter.
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He took advantage of his experience as a member of the active reserve of the National Navy and enrolled in an intelligence course for the sole purpose of locating it.
Social networks became the main clue. He sought to establish contact with people close to the fugitive’s family through four profiles that he himself created with Arabic names.near Aracataca, the hometown of the Saade.
apartment 102
With patience he began to forge a relationship with them and gained their trust, knowing that in June 2023 the process would prescribe and that time was running out.
I didn’t know yet the fugitive was in a stable relationship with a Brazilian woman he met only a year after killing Nancy.
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with her has two children and started a family as if nothing had happened. The family lived in apartment 102 of an exclusive condominium.
and although the murderer had put land in the middle so that no one could locate him, he began to leave traces of his whereabouts.
although he used his fraudulent identity to open bank accounts and carried an ID in his wallet, a taxpayer’s registration and a driver’s license under the false name, he stamped his real name on a couple of documents.
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One of them was the formalization of their sentimental relationship, on February 3, 2020. And it also appears on your children’s birth records.
A couple of months before the legalization of Saade’s marriage, Nancy’s father found the first certain evidence of her location.
Indeed, Martín Mestre noticed the appearance of the words ‘Belo Horizonte’ in the chats he had with the Saade family and with relatives.
By then, the father of Nancy had the support of two colonels from the Colombian Police who were part of the investigation. who went ahead to track down the murderer.
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After ruling out that it was the populous neighborhood of the city of Santa Marta (Colombia), provided the data to Interpolwhich located Henrique dos Santos Abdala first.
According to the research, They compared the prints that Dos Santos left on a glass and it was confirmed that it belonged to Jaime Enrique Saade himself.
The tie
Immediately, was captured by agents of the Federal Police of Brazil in an operation a few meters from his home in the exclusive sector where he had built his hidden life.
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Jaime Saade was placed in preventive detention at the Nelson Hungria penitentiary, located in the municipality of Contagem, 21 kilometers from Belo Horizonte.
It seemed that the fight the Mestre family had finished with the international capture of the culprit, since the Colombian request for extradition began to be studied by the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil.
To ensure that not escape and advance all international procedures, Martín Mestre hired a group of outstanding lawyersamong them the Colombian penalist Fabio Humar.
Also, to attorney Margarita Rosa Sánchez, with an office in Washington; the Brazilian Bruno Barreto Teixeira and members of the firm Miller & Chevalier.
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But the decision made by the high court was not what they expected In colombia.
Two of the five magistrates on the court argued that the crime for which Saade had been accused had already prescribed in Brazil. In that country, a homicide prescribes after 20 years, and in this case 26 had already passed.
Two other magistrates they voted in favor of extraditing the Colombian in a clear tie. And the fifth member of the court had a medical license.
Brazilian regulations maintain that, in this case, the decision that best benefits the defendant must be made.for which he was released in September 2020.
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“They defined the fate of my daughter’s murder as if it were a soccer match,” Mestre told EL TIEMPO when the decision was made public. And he sent letters to the magistrates warning them that a murderer was loose in that country.
Saade seemed to have escaped justice once again. He returned to the luxurious Silveira neighborhood of Belo Horizonte, while Martín Mestre played his last card judicial.
final review
Along with their lawyers, He prepared a document that he sent to the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil in mid-2022. In this he argued that the magistrates had been wrong in not considering that Saade had also committed crimes in the country where he was hiding.
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There was incurred in the crimes of ideological falsification and use of false documents before public bodies. This caused the prescription of the homicide for which he was requested in extradition to be suspended.
Although initially the court assured that there was no way to prove the commission of a new crimeon April 19, the magistrates of the second chamber of the Supreme Court met again to review the case.
And in a fact described as historical, they approved the extradition of Jaime Saade.
This time they determined that there was a recidivism in the crime and that, therefore, the prescription of the homicide should be suspended..
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“Nancy is not just a Colombian victim, but is part of hundreds of thousands who suffer the same fate every hour throughout the American continent, especially in Brazil”said Edson Fachin, one of the magistrates.
Saade is free but the Colombian authorities are already coordinating with their Brazilian counterparts so that he can be recaptured and extradited. The fear is that the residents of the Silveira neighborhood say they never saw the children or the Brazilian wife of the Colombian murderer again.
He is 62 years old, which means that he would finish paying his sentence at 86, because a Colombian court reduced his initial sentence by three years due to adjustments in Colombian legislation.
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For his part, Martín Mestre, now 81 years old, is just waiting for justice to be done and for someone to come in and investigate whose traces of blood were also on his daughter’s body. Saade knows the whole truth.
The possible future of the process
The fear that for now invades Martín Mestre is that the man he persecuted so much ends up fleeing again, taking into account that the sentence against him may prescribe next July.
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However, Everything seems to be aimed at the authorities in Brazil giving the green light so that the Colombian National Police, attached to that country, can bring Saade back. to carry out the sentence.
Parallel to that scenario, It is also waiting for the Superior Court of Barranquilla to resolve on the merits of an appeal filed by Saade’s defense to declare the prescription of the processalthough they maintain that this already happened after the arrest of his client in 2020.
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