2023-10-04 15:19:21
The jury trial for the murder of Miguel “Ruso” Auer, and the common trial for the murder of Diego Nicolás Escobar at the hands of police officer Nicolás Leopoldo López already have a date. They are two resonant cases for Neuquén and although each one has particular details, they have one point in common: There are defendants who were friends of the victim.
The hearings will begin next October 17 and will last until the 25th In the case of Auer and until the 23rd in the crime attributed to police officer López.
In the Auer case, they are accused Miguel Franco Level (58), a friend of the victim and who for the prosecution is the mastermind of the hit; Jorge Marcelo Sosa (52), identified as the man who fired the gun; Gabriel Castro Herrera (62), an alleged buyer of dollars that the gang used to access Auer’s bunker (58) and Jorge Alberto Falconi (52).
The respective defenders They are Melina Pozzer, Ricardo Mendaña (Livello and Sosa); Maximiliano Gómez, Elio García (Castro) and Carlos Tejeda (Falconi). The Guarantees judge who will intervene in the hearings will be Raúl Aufranc.
The intersection with the social plans cause
Among police officers, experts, scientists and relatives of the victim summoned to testify, the names of two defendants in the scam with social plans stand out: the former Minister of Social Development, Abel Di Luca, and the Provincial Coordinator of Administration of that portfolio, Tomás Siegenthaler.
Chief Prosecutor Agustín García’s theory of the case is that the “Russian” Auer was sentenced to death. The gang that arrived at his bunker on the third floor of 9 de Julio 43, in the heart of Neuquén, was determined not to leave him alive because they knew that would effortlessly discover who were the perpetrators of the robbery that they ultimately could not determine that noon on October 24, 2022.
The merchant was shot and died on November 4.
The workshop homicide
Regarding the homicide of Diego Nicolás Escobar (28), the victim occurred in a workshop owned by Cristian Gatica, located at 12 de Septiembre 885, last Thursday, March 9 at 3:30 p.m..
The trial comes preceded by controversy. Although the accused López perpetrated the crime with his service weapon and dressed as a police officer, He will not be charged with “homicide committed in abuse of police function”, as the plaintiff Marcelo Hertzriken Velasco intended. That legal qualification, if found guilty, carries a penalty of life imprisonment.
Instead, the position of the prosecution prevailed: It was a simple homicide aggravated by the use of weapons, which has a minimum sentence of more than 10 years. That is why a court of professional judges will intervene and not a popular jury. These are Carina Álvarez, Estefanía Sauli and Luis Giorgetti.
The event occurred in the workshop where Lucas Israel and Carlos Andrés Escobar, who are brothers, worked. They knew Officer López for years. The police officer served at the 41st police station.
“Do not do that”
The accused, according to the prosecution, arrived dressed in his uniform. At the entrance to the workshop he crossed paths with Carlos Escobar, who was going out to buy a soda. Without saying a word, he unholstered his black Bersa 9 millimeter pistol and fired the trigger at his chest.. The projectile did not come out.
His friend was very scared. “Don’t do that, it’s not a game”He warned.
Police officer López continued into the workshop, where Diego and Lucas were working on a car. Gatica He thought he saw him make some movement with the gun.but since he doesn’t know about weapons, he doesn’t know what he did.
The concrete thing is that, always without saying a wordLópez he put the cannon on his chest At Diego, he fired the trigger and fatally wounded him.
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