2023-05-22 10:46:00
Pablo Vilo set fire to the house in the Obrero de Plottier neighborhood where he lived with his partner, Nancy Bustamante, and their two children, who were 9 and 12 years old at the time, on July 26, 2022. The prosecution locates the event in a context of gender violence: The woman had denounced him in 2019, that day they argued because she told him that she wanted to separate and he sprayed her with combustible liquid. The defense maintains that the defendant only wanted Destroy the house, cause material damage.
The court – made up of Patricia Lupica Cristo, Carina Álvarez and Gustavo Ravizzoli– You must define if Vilo is responsible for trying to kill whoever was your partner for 20 years and their children. The maximum sentence that could apply to him is 15 years.
The trial will begin on Tuesday the 23rd, in the Judicial City of Neuquén and five days of hearing are scheduled.
According to the account of the prosecutor María Eugenia Titanti, the defendant locked the door and provoked two sources of fire: one in the dining room, where the children were, and another in the master bedroom. The boys managed to escape and told their uncles who live very close. A neighbor helped the woman get out, but she suffered serious burns on her body, especially on her face, hand, and lower limbs. She should have been referred to Castro Rendón. Her children were treated at the Plottier hospital for smoke inhalation. It was not an accident: it put three people at risk of life.
The defense says that there was a discussion about the separation, that the defendant went to get a fuel can, which he spilled, but not directly on his partner. That he even tried to help her, and that’s why he got burned too.
“He caused a common danger, injuring only Mrs. Bustamante,” said the public defender, Eliana Lazzarini, in control of the accusation, the hearing in which it is defined if the case goes to trial and with what evidence. She remarked that “the boys were not injured.” In total, 34 witnesses were admitted.
In the trial, the public defender, Verónica Zingoni, will assist the defendant, who He has been in pretrial detention since the charges were filed against him.
In Neuquén, so far in 2023, there have been four femicides: by Karen Ibarra, that of Norma Morales and her daughter Luz de los Milagros Prietoy that of Cristina González.
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