Global Courant 2023-04-21 14:01:48
The father of the young woman murdered at the exit of a party in San Martín is dissatisfied with the decision of Justice. They had requested a 35-year sentence for Alejo Saucedo.
The party was in Villa Hidalgo, José León Suárez. Chiara Nicole Ramírez (19) decided to go at the last minute, at the invitation of a cousin. Around six in the morning on Sunday, a local group started an argument with some of the men from the group Chiara had arrived with. She was afraid and asked for a remís. She wanted to go back to her house. When she got into the car, a Chevrolet Corsa, she was shot in the back of the head. It was September 19, 2021.
Alejo Joel Saucedo (19) was sentenced to 20 years in prison for aggravated homicide for the use of a firearm by the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 3 of San Martín. The Ramírez family lawyer had asked for a 35-year sentence.
“Our sentence is much longer than that of this kid (by Saucedo). A single bullet killed us as a family. All of us. It paralyzed our lives,” explains Clarín Pablo (43), Chiara’s father, by phone, dissatisfied with the court’s decision.
And he argues: “My wife could not go back to work. My 18-year-old daughter did not want to go to school anymore and it is difficult for her to leave her room. She was the closest to Chiara. The 8-year-old suffers from depression. The youngest is 3 years old Chiara raised her. She was like her second mother. Since they killed her, my baby cries senselessly and her look changed.”
Chiara attended high school in the afternoon and in the morning she was in charge of caring for the family’s baby, while her parents worked as home nurses. The Ramírez are from the Sarmiento neighborhood, San Martín district. Chiara was not one to go out dancing. She preferred to receive her friends.
Alejo Saucedo (19), convicted of shooting Chiara Ramírez (19) in the back of the head after leaving a party in San Martín.
At the party in question there were about 100 people. It was organized in a house and different DJs played. The discussion would have started between the condemned Saucedo and his companion Alan Ferreira, from the Hidalgo village, and two young men from the Corea neighborhood, from the same area. Ferreira was a fugitive for a few days. He though he was released within hours of his arrest.
“There are witnesses who affirmed that Ferreiro and other people stood in front of the car, preventing them from passing. They would not let it go forward,” Pablo clarifies. It’s just that seconds before the two young people from Korea had gotten on the bus that Chiara had requested. Saucedo fired at least twice. One of those munitions broke the rear window and hit the woman in the neck. She died within minutes.
“He went to a place he had never been to. To a neighborhood that is no man’s land. He was left in the middle of a fight between two people who sell drugs,” Rubén Ramírez, Chiara’s uncle, told Clarín 24 hours later. of his murder. Pablo adds: “Four witnesses asked not to talk about Alan: ‘we know what he’s doing. He’s armed, with the issue of drugs,’ they said with fear. He didn’t even come to trial as a defendant. He may continue killing. He has power, and they can kill whoever you want.”
Chiara’s family and friends, in one of the marches demanding Justice. Photo Andrés D’Elia
Saucedo pleaded not guilty. He even blamed another man for the crime. Despite this, a cousin claimed to have seen him shoot. Prosecutor Noemí Carreira had requested an 18-year sentence for him. It was not clear why they did not charge him with the attempted murder of the other people who were in the remís.
“What can we who are simple nurses do?” asks Pablo and answers: “The Police select which evidence and which witnesses come to the case. The State does not defend us. It could not even guarantee that my daughter would go to a party… nobody does anything. Death surrounds us. Since Chiara was killed, I learned of several more homicides in Villa Hidalgo.”
Pablo tried to resume his job as a nurse. He says it was impossible. “I can’t help anyone, I’m not in a position to support a patient. I can’t help myself. Day to day is extremely difficult,” he explains. Although, according to him, “he can’t help anyone”, he feels that a new job is helping him. It is a help house for adolescents in San Martín. Although there is something that he cannot avoid: seeing an adolescent woman and thinking of Chiara.
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