2023-12-29 18:12:00
A feeling of “indignation and injustice” queen in the family Arturo Lopez, he beachy who was brutally beaten while working in a parking lot in the City of Buenos Aires. The reason is a twist in the case, after a judge ordered the release of his attacker because he considered the sentence “excessive.”
Carlos Manuel A. had been in prison for a year and a half for having punched López in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat in 2021, who since then requires permanent assistance and care. The aggressor, who at the time of the incident was a minor, fled and was later sentenced on September 1 of this year to a sentence of four years and six months in prison for the crime of very serious injuries, in line with the consequences that were left to López.
“Justice laughs in our faces”
This Friday, December 29, Justice decided to release the aggressor under certain conditions, considering the sentence against the convicted person “excessive.” After the news became known, the family of López, 66, showed their anger with the situation.
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“Unfortunately, Justice continues to laugh in our faces. But there is not much we can do and that makes me very angry,” said Florencia, one of the victim’s daughters, according to Clarín.
“I can talk about what I feel, what my daughters feel: indignation, injustice. In two years I feel like we accomplished nothing. We are tired,” added Mirian Luna, lawyer and ex-wife of the beach player.
After having been detained for a year and a half, Carlos A. was freed as ordered by the judge Laura de Marinis, head of the Juvenile Criminal Court No. 3, but with two conditions: he must use the geopositioning anklet y You will not be able to leave the City of Buenos Aires.
The judge made that decision allowing for the review of the sentence handed down by Chamber No. 1 of the Court of Appeals of the City of Buenos Aires, which considered the sentence “excessive” and that the young man must receive a new one, but “in suspense”, less than three years.
For their part, Arturo’s daughters are the ones in charge of organizing the man’s care schedule, who was left with psychomotor difficulties, problems in speech and other cognitive abilities, as consequences of the beating and requires 24-hour caregivers.
While the aggressor is shielded because he was a minor at the time of the incident, the possibilities of the outcome of the case, which could be elevated to higher judicial authorities, including the Superior Court of Justice of Buenos Aires, are not known.
The attack on the beach
The event occurred in November 2021 in a parking lot in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Monserrat. Carlos, then a 17-year-old young man, and his family rebuked to López for a scratch he had seen on his car.
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In the middle of the argument, the teenager asked his mother to leave the place and gave her a brutal blow to the man’s head, as recorded on the premises’ security cameras. Since then, Arturo López must attend a rehabilitation clinic and has lifelong consequences such as loss of speech and difficulties moving.
The young man initially fled but then surrendered. On September 1, 2023, the teenager was sentenced to four years and six months in prison for the crime of very serious injuries. This resolution was imposed by the Judge of 1st Instance in Criminal, Juvenile Criminal, Contravention and Misdemeanors No. 11 of the City of Buenos Aires, Alejandro Villanueva, when considering the lifelong consequences that the victim has.
At the beginning of the trial, whose sentence was announced in September 2023, Agostina, one of Arturo’s daughters, spoke in Splendid AM990 and stressed: “We have been looking for justice for two years. My father continues to work hard every day to get ahead. All we want is for it to be resolved in some way.”
The young woman explained that her father suffered “a intraphasic trauma which caused lifelong consequences, which is why they are very serious injuries, because it has already been proven that he was left with conditions that will accompany him for the rest of his days.
Likewise, he indicated that the man had a decline in his health: “Now he has problems with understanding and language. Unfortunately A month ago he had to be admitted to intensive care again. because he had an episode of seizure“.
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