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It was a request from the mayor and councillors. Patricia Hortel had said that her daughter would not have suffered the same as Rocío González, because “she makes herself respected.”
Prosecutor Patricia Hortel, who was investigating the femicide of Rocío González in Saladillo, was removed from her position after her controversial statements in an interview, in which she assured that the same thing had not happened to her own daughter as to the victim because she “becomes respect”.
The resolution of the Attorney General of the Department of La Plata, Héctor Vogliolo, resolved to leave the prosecutor Roberto Javier Berlingieri in charge of the decentralized UFIJ No. 2 of Saladillo, in the instruction area, which until Monday was in charge of Hortel. The removal had been requested by the victim’s family, the local mayor and councilors from both Together for Change and the Frente de Todos.
Rocío González (25) was killed with seven shots while working, along with a colleague, at the security company, located at 2800 Almafuerte Street, in Saladillo. Her murderer, Renzo Eduardo Chidichimo (25), was a co-worker who systematically harassed her and whom the young woman had denounced twice.
Rocío González (25) was shot to death in Saladillo by her co-worker (Photo: Facebook / Rochii González)
Once the femicide was arrested, Hortel was interviewed on a television program. She was asked what she would say to Rocío González if she were alive. “I have for myself, maybe I’m wrong, experience tells me not… The aggressors select their victims. I make it difficult for something like this to happen to my daughter, because she has another profile, do you understand me? We must educate very differently from women,” began his reply.
And he deepened his opinion. “I don’t know Rocío, I can’t speak for Rocío, because I don’t know her. But what I can tell you is that most, not all, but most of the victims that I have are much more moderate, educated, much more respectful”.
They arrested the femicide of Rocío González, the young woman murdered with seven shots in Saladillo Renzo Chidichimo. Photo: Juan Pablo Krupitzky
“I am sure that my daughter dances it out, she imposes herself. She is a person who is respected, her ‘no’ is respected. And most of the people I have are not like that,” continued the prosecutor, in dialogue with The nine.
Faced with the reproach of the host of the program, he said: “I do not share that, but it is a reality. I would prefer that it be respected the same.” And he concluded: “There is a lack of psychologists, psychiatrists. If you go to the psychiatrist, they agree with me: there is something that makes them selectable (for the femicide).”
Upon learning of Hortel’s statements, the victim’s family submitted a petition to the Saladillo authorities to promote the removal of the prosecutor in charge of UFIN° 2. The document was received by the mayor José Luis Salomón who, with the signatures of secretaries and councilors of Together for Change and the Front of All, he sent it to the attorney Conte Grand.
In the request, Salomón described the prosecutor’s statement as “unfortunate and regrettable.” His words, he said, “demonstrate a profound lack of gender perspective and social sensitivity that is causing a repeated social outcry today for his removal from office.”
“As a municipal representative, he questions me and generates sufficient conviction, my own and that of my work team, of having to raise such a request for dismissal in accordance with the procedures that he legally deems appropriate,” added the community chief.
“These misguided words stereotyping a victim in front of her aggressor and making her take charge of the perception or the risks that she herself ran in front of the perpetrator, we believe that it must be a function of the effectors of justice and that to raise the other is to revictimize a person who has just lost his most precious right, which is the right to life,” the official note continued.
